“56-year-old Michael Francis Elliott of Gravesend has been found guilty and given a two year suspended sentence on charges of illegally trading in elephant ivory, hippopotamus ivory and sperm whale teeth. This follows a lengthy investigation by the Met’s Wildlife Crime Unit that led police to enquiries in China, Latvia and the United States.” - Wildlife Extra
“Authorities at a wildlife museum adjacent to Corbett tiger reserve are in a fix after two tusks worth more than $ 12,000 were stolen. ” - The Times of India
“Jharkhand’s forest department is planning to put on display in a museum the tusks of a rogue elephant, named Laden by the villagers. ” - The Times of India
“On January 24, six crop-raiding male elephants were de-tusked on Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The exercise was carried out by Ol Pejeta and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).” - African Path
“Three dealers in protected wildlife species have been arrested in Mamfe, Manyu Division in the South West Province and are to appear in the Court of First Instance in Mamfe on January 30, 2008 on charges stipulated under the 1994 wildlife law. The dealers were caught trying to sell some parts of elephants including 14 elephant tails, 4 elephant tusks and an elephant tooth. The 14 elephant tails simply mean 14 elephant killed through illegal hunting and related trade. It is difficult to estimate how many hundreds of elephants could have been killed by their trading activities throughout the country.” - allAfrica.com
“Police in New Westminster, B.C., have arrested the owner of a jewelry pawnshop for allegedly fencing stolen goods out of his store, including contraband elephant tusks.” - canada.com
“A Sri Lanka Marxist People’s Liberation Front (JVP) parliament member in JVP stronghold in Matara district in the Southern province on Monday has been accused of attempting to steal a precious pair of elephant tusks of a Buddhist temple.” - Siber News
“Greek palaeontologists have discovered the tusks and fossilized remains of a 3-million-year-old mastodon, or extinct elephant, in northern Greece, reports said Tuesday.” - Monsters and Critics
” A Lebanese has been arrested in Zambia for unlawful possession of 55 pieces of elephant tusks worth nearly 80,000 U.S. dollars and 58 rounds of ammunition, Times of Zambia reported Saturday.” - People’s Daily Online
“Close on the heels of the seizure of 14 kg of ivory in Bhubaneswar, forest department officials have recovered eight elephant tusks from a lodge in Udala town of Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district.” - KalingaTimes.com :
“If elephants are becoming more aggressive toward humans, it is for good reason. A new study, led by a University of Washington scientist, shows elephants are again being slaughtered in large numbers for their ivory tusks” - Seattle PI
“An example of such selection, Baum said, can be seen in the increased number of elephants born without tusks in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. According to scientists, this phenomenon has arisen due to rampant ivory poaching in Africa.” - The Badger Herald
“Prosecutors in Vietnam decided Thursday to indict a man who smuggled in a large number of elephant tusks and a source said he will stand trial soon.” - Thanh Nien Daily
“Rangers from the Kenya Wildlife Service had seized 17 elephant tusks in western Kenya since November, officials said on Tuesday.” - IOL
