The website Yahoo Japan has come under heavy fire for allowing the sale of an estimated 12 tonnes (13.2 tons) of ivory products over a two-year period. It is thought that thousands of items made out ...

This photo taken on December 4, 2025 shows an elephant figurine made of ivory displayed at an antiquities shop in Tokyo. [AFP] At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a ...

LYON, France, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Africa’s elephants top a packed agenda for the CITES Standing Committee meeting opening Monday that covers protection for 30+ species of plants and animals.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR: The global ban on the trade of ivory has helped elephants, but it is taking a toll ...

(Kazuhiro NOGI/AFP/AFP) At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues -- including many made of ivory.

Hajime Sasaki says there is little demand for the ivory ornaments he sells, which can legally only be bought and sold witin Japan While Japan's ivory trade is legal only within the country, seizure ...

International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world's largest remaining legal domestic markets for the product, which can only be bought and sold within its borders. It ...