In November last year, the UK’s Border Force officers joined an international operation to combat the illegal wildlife trade. Those officers may not have imagined the dizzying range of items that ...

They sold items like honey, tin, wheat, wool, wood, iron, fur, leather, fish and walrus ivory. They used scales to weigh coins and get a fair deal. West (towards the sunset) meant they were headed ...

While this ivory forms a significantly smaller part of the UK ivory trade than that from elephants ... walruses and sea lions including fur, blubber, tusks or oil). However, warthogs were not ...

The oil in their belly fur stains the concrete ... they could eat well by hanging out with humans. They spread with trade along the Silk Road, and were established in parts of Europe by about ...

A new map of Africa that uses strontium could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots ...

From the weird to the wonderful, here's our roundup of animals you've never heard of before (and certainly won't forget in a ...

Carl Gawboy, a Minnesota artist and Ojibwe scholar, explores the rich history of the fur trade in his book "Fur Trade Nation: ...

Roughly 20 million animals were killed as part of the fur trade in 2023 versus 140 million in 2014. The number of fur farms in the European Union fell to 1,088 in 2023 from 4,350 in 2018.

The UK Government has announced a ban on the trade of ivory from hippos, narwhals, orcas and sperm whales as part of its conservation efforts. The Ivory Act, initially introduced to protect elephants, ...

UK trade in ivory from hippos, narwhals, orcas and sperm whales has been banned as part of conservation efforts, the Government has said. The Ivory Act, introduced to protect elephants, has been ...

PETA announced in 2020 that it was ending its long-running “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign. For three decades, the ads decrying the use of animal pelts in fashion had featured ...