One tagua palm can produce as much vegetable ivory in one year as an average African elephant can produce in its lifetime.
Kenya is home to a rare ‘big tusker’elephant, which was captured on film by British photographer Will Burrard-Lucas.
After going undercover as an ivory buyer, wildlife photographer Adrian Steirn belives he has proof that the former first lady was involved with an ivory smuggling ring.
Authorities at OR Tambo International Airport have uncovered a mammoth stockpile of ivory due to leave our shores and head overseas.
Poachers in Zimbabwe mixed cyanide with salt, and used it to contaminate pools where elephants go to drink – quietly killing 41 elephants. Once the elephants died, their tusks were cut off and taken away, while the elephants’ bodies were left to rot.