Posts Tagged: "elephant"

2016 World Elephant Day to Focus on Asian Elephants

by Karen Blansfield » 11 August 2016 at 4:25 am

Elephants have been an integral part of history and cultures worldwide for centuries. They have been everything from circus entertainers to zoo occupants, from formidable instruments of war and labor to to prized sources of ivory. Only in recent decades, however, has the suffering and plight of elephants been brought to the forefront, along with […]

Ban on Elephant Ivory Increases Popularity of Fossils

by Ethical Traveler » 31 October 2004 at 9:08 pm

A 15-year ban on the sale of ivory from illegally slaughtered elephants has boosted the popularity of fossil ivory. The ancient tusks of wooly mammoths, elephant-like creatures that lived between 20,000 and 5,000 years ago, have been recovered from sandbars near the Arctic Ocean, where they’d been carried by the Siberian tundra’s melting waters. Mammoth […]