The Elephant Monk, Kruba Dharmamuni, who used to be the Scorpion Monk and still displays a life-size statue of himself as a scorpion in his temple, wants to take me ivory shopping in Surin.

But increased awareness of the poaching of elephants in Africa is ... especially in the form of small carvings or jewelry. Some will stain poached ivory to disguise it as an antique or fossil.

A stack of burning elephant tusks, ivory figurines and rhinoceros horns at Nairobi National Park, Kenya, April 30, 2016. Credit: FREDRIK LERNERYD/AFP/Getty Images Samper said the resolution to ...

The material can be 3D-printed and polished to create deceptively authentic carvings ... used for eating, ivory tusks are teeth that have emerged beyond the lips, giving elephants an evolutionary ...

King Charles gave a nod to the animal his brother-in-law loved so much with his wardrobe, wearing a blue elephant-print tie ...

An analysis by ivory trade experts also indicated that thousands of elephant ivory objects have ... a bracelet and a set of figurines, two were chemically confirmed by scientists in the Oxford ...

Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles ... You may like 'Very rare' African ebony figurines found in 1,500-year-old Christian burials in Israeli desert ...