The forest department officials arrested a person for possessing a Vinayakar idol carved from an elephant tusk on Monday. Based on inputs provided by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB ...

Krishnagiri: Forest officers attached to the Hosur forest division on Sunday arrested a seven-member gang for attempting to sell a pair of elephant tusks. The wildlife warden of the Hosur forest ...

BOUDH: In a major boost for wildlife crime prosecution in the state, a Boudh court on Monday convicted eight persons for elephant poaching and possession of tusks in connection with a case ...

Tamil Nadu police recovered a rare navapashana idol of Lord Murugan worth Rs 35 crore and a Krishna idol made of elephant tusk worth Rs 35 lakh. Officials suspect links to a Bengaluru-based smuggling ...

Bhubaneswar: In a first in Odisha, a local court in Boudh Monday convicted eight persons of killing an elephant and removing its tusks for pecuniary gains in the district in 2016. The convicts were ...

The Nigerian Customs Service on Thursday arraigned a businessman, Ikenna Aniche, before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly selling and dealing in 25.35 kilograms of elephant tusks.

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

Kundara: Kochayyappan badly needed to trim down its overgrown tusks. But the COVID-19 lockdown meant that the elephant too had to wait before someone could free him from the misery of interlocked ...

The trunk of an elephant derives from a fusion of their nose and upper lip. Elephant biologists believe that elephants’ trunks adapted in response to the development of their tusks. Although elephant ...