Wooden carving of two elephants facing one another. One of the elephants is larger and stands with its trunk outstretched and its mouth open slightly. The smaller elephant stands with its trunk curled ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The buying and selling of illegal elephant ivory is a major problem online, and even ...

Tragically though, for the second time in the last century, elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks at rates that are causing severe population declines across the continent.

The US-based environmental organisation WildAid estimates that more than 30,000 elephants are killed every year in Africa for their tusks. The ivory is often carved into ornaments and jewellery ...