The notice offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could invent a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Playing pool was a booming leisure activity at the time, but the demand for ivory was already ...

They arrested two suspects in Maralal Town after they were allegedly found to be in possession of seven pieces of elephant tusks. NPS said a red Boxer motorbike was also recovered and held as an ...

Madurai: Forest department officials arrested five men for attempting to sell an elephant tusk in Madurai on Tuesday. Based on a tip, a team of forest officials inspected the Valar Nagar area in ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, (IANS) – It was anxious moments for Kerala’s Kollam resident Omanakuttan Pillai on April 10 morning as a team of elephant experts and wildlife staff sawed off the excess length of ...

Bhubaneswar: The forest department in Dhenkanal seized a 4-kg elephant tusk that had naturally fallen off a wild tusker roaming in Hindol range, DFO (Dhenkanal) Sumit Kar said on Saturday. The animal ...

African cow horns. Forensic tests later confirmed the tusks came from Loxodonta africana, the African elephant species ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While India's wild elephant population has dropped by 25 per cent in just eight years, the Western Ghats remain a key sanctuary, home to 80 per cent of the country's elephants.

Major setback for actor Mohanlal as the Kerala High Court holds that the ownership certificates for keeping ivory as 'illegal ...

Wildlife investigators with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife say they’ve uncovered what they suspect is a ...

This folder contains a black-and-white photograph of James C. Clark, seated between two elephant tusks. Clark is holding his rifle and two field assistants are holding up the tusks. Location in Africa ...

A video of a 15-day-old elephant calf who was recently rescued from the floodwaters in India is widely circulating on social media. The 29-second clip, shared by Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer ...