Good news for elephants—demand for ivory is falling in China China’s ivory factories will close on Thursday as part of Beijing's goal to end the ivory trade by 2018.

In Fighting Illegal Ivory, EU Lags Behind This week the environment ministers of the 28 member states will meet in Luxembourg to consider new ivory trade controls.

U.S. Adopts Near-Total Ivory Ban The move is the latest step in the Obama administration’s fight against wildlife trafficking.

New U.S. Ban On Ivory Sales To Protect Elephants New regulation will ban almost all sales of African elephant ivory in the U.S. The changes will allow sale and transport of musical instruments, guns and other items made with small amounts of ivory.

‘Ivory is worthless unless it is on our elephants’: Kenya hosts world’s largest ivory burn The ivory burn is intended as a condemnation of that booming market.

Who Buys Ivory? You'd Be Surprised The majority of people who buy products made from ivory say they would support banning the sale of ivory. That conflicting sentiment is one of several surprising findings in a new international survey published Wednesday by the National Geographic So Read more ... ciety and GlobalScan.

Destroying Ivory to Save Elephants: Is it Working? Poachers and unscrupulous marketers and buyers of ivory apparently have not been thwarted by the destruction of ivory, as evidenced by the continuing robust market for ivory after the massive crushes.

Why Elephant Advocates Crushed a Ton of Ivory In Times Square "We're not only crushing ivory, we're crushing the ivory market"

China Suspends Ivory Imports, But African Elephants Still In Danger Of Extinction BEIJING -- China on Thursday suspended the import of ivory carvings for one year, marking a small step toward limiting the ivory demand that drives the slaughter...

Ban Ivory Sales -- All of Them If the United States and other nations do not fully ban the sale of ivory, African elephants could be extinct -- poof -- in as few as five years....