(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 ...

A rising middle class in Asia, where ivory is highly valued and symbolizes wealth, means a growing number of people can afford ivory products. This fuels a race for ever increasing supplies of raw ...

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 ...

Little white chips fly off in every direction with each blow of master ivory carver Li Chunke's chisel. Gradually, the folds of a robe, tassels and hands of an ancient Chinese woman begin to emerge ...

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 ...