ivory

Elephant ivory: DNA analysis

Elephant ivory: DNA analysis offers clearest insight yet into illegal trafficking networks

Poaching rare wildlife for teeth, tusks, fur, horns and other body parts is a crime which threatens many species with extinction, but the evidence which could incriminate traffickers is often difficult to access, hard to interpret, or piecemeal. To discover more about the criminal networks sustaining this trade, researchers in the US, Kenya and Singapore…

archaeological elephant tusks

Tusks found in 500-year-old shipwreck reveal origins of ancient elephants and impact of the ivory trade

Oxford University study leads cutting-edge scientific and historic analysis of elephant tusks found in shipwrecked cargo. OXFORD, 17 December 2020 – An international team has discovered the origin of the largest cargo of African ivory found from the oldest shipwreck in southern Africa.   The discovery of a 16th-century shipwreck has, with the aid of advanced scientific…

Silent Forests: A rare glimpse inside the forest elephant poaching crisis

Silent Forests: A rare glimpse inside the forest elephant poaching crisis

We are in the midst of an elephant poaching epidemic across the African continent. Fueled by a growing middle class in Asia that is hungry for ivory status symbols, these iconic and intelligent mammals are being slaughtered for their tusks at an alarming rate. While there has been a lot of media focus on savannah…