(Kazuhiro NOGI/AFP/AFP) At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues -- including many made of ivory.

Illegal carved ivory (photograph by Bill Butcher, via U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Northeast Region) These episodes mark the first time there’s been public destruction of ivory in non-African ...

Kenya, long at the forefront of efforts to shut the ivory trade down completely, last week torched thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns. Proposals for the meeting in Johannesburg were made ...

Research has shown that conservation campaigns could turn the tide on the illegal ivory trade if they focused less on themes of 'guilt' and more on why people want to buy ivory in the first place.

Introduction -- Africa and Ivory : An Ancient but Bloody and Brutal Trade -- The Nineteenth Century : One Hundred Years of Exploitation and Extermination -- The Ivory Trade and Criminalisation of ...

International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world's largest remaining legal domestic markets for the product, which can only be bought and sold within its borders. It ...