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# ivory

Last year
2022
1.5 tonnes of elephant ivory have been seized in southeast DR Congo
The contraband represents 80 to 100 slaughtered elephants.
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May 19th 2022, 2:41 PM
DNA testing of elephant ivory reveals tactics of criminal networks
The analysis was used to identify tusks of elephants that were close relatives – parents and offspring, full siblings and half-siblings.
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Feb 14th 2022, 10:20 PM
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Leading ivory trade investigator murdered in Kenya
Esmond Martin, aged 75, died after being stabbed at his house in a Nairobi suburb.
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Feb 5th 2018, 1:25 PM
Alleged poacher arrested after rhino he was targeting attacks and injures him
The incident happened in Etosha National Park in Namibia.
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Oct 22nd 2017, 1:07 PM
How do you get a fingerprint from an elephant tusk? Award for groundbreaking project
Mark Moseley and Dr Leon Barron, from Wexford, developed a fingerprinting kit to identify elephant poachers.
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Oct 21st 2017, 9:00 PM
Vince the white rhino shot by poachers at French zoo and mutilated with chainsaw
The killers hacked off the animal’s horns.
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Mar 7th 2017, 6:51 PM
The world's biggest ivory bonfire is happening right now
An estimated $100m worth of illegal ivory is being torched.
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Apr 30th 2016, 5:23 PM
A hunter has shot the biggest elephant killed in Africa for almost 30 years
A German national paid the equivalent of €53,000 for a permit to land the bull elephant.
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Oct 16th 2015, 6:59 AM
Tonnes of illegal elephant ivory tusks and trinkets burned at the stake
The move was made in an attempt to protect elephants.
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Mar 20th 2015, 9:15 PM
Thousands of elephants are killed in Africa every year - and China is partly to blame
Researchers said prices for raw ivory in China had risen from $750 (550 euros) per kilo in 2010 to $2,100 (1,540 euros) in 2014.
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Dec 10th 2014, 7:15 AM
African elephants could quickly "be driven to extinction locally", warns conservation group
CITES says that the number of elephants killed in the past three years is “far exceeding” the number born.
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Jul 10th 2014, 7:30 AM
Kenya's largest elephant has been killed by poachers
Distressing images. Satao was one last surviving of the ‘great tuskers’.
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Jun 14th 2014, 11:36 AM
Video column: Is there a viable solution to ivory poaching?
There were approximately 10 million elephants in Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Today, thanks to widespread poaching, that number has dropped to 500,000.
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Jan 20th 2014, 12:45 PM