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The article highlights the global trafficking of coral, a crucial component of tropical reefs, emphasizing its impact on marine ecosystems and efforts to combat illegal trade through a network of wildlife facilities. It discusses the challenges of caring for confiscated corals and the expansion of efforts to manage and rehabilitate seized wildlife in the U.S., aiming to mitigate the harm caused by trafficking and promote conservation awareness.

The article focuses on the evolving perceptions of how to wear tuxedos, showcasing the recent trend of celebrities and stylists redefining the classic evening wear on the red carpet with innovative and flexible variations at events like the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Focuses on the ivory art objects in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. History on the use of ivory in art; Features of the ivory material; Pair of Amarna period cosmetix boxes in the shape of trussed ducks; Statuette of a coiffed Nubian tribute bearer wearing a patterned sarong.

The article reports on Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara apparently has won a controversial third term in office in a landslide victory in the West African nation's presidential election.

The article reports on the concerns raised by the increasing popularity of mammoth ivory in China as a substitute to those taken from elephants after the country's ban on the sale of commercial ivory in 2016. Topics include the arguments by conservationists about the booming trade of mammoth ivory even if it is being promoted as an ethical alternative, the amount of ivory importation in China as of June 2017 and the number of elephants lost from 2006 to 2015 due to illegal trade of ivory.

The article reports on the decision by China to ban all commerce in ivory by the end of 2017. The decision is expected to affect the practice of elephant poaching in Africa since China is the world's largest ivory market. The decision was made in response to growing international and domestic pressure. Carter Roberts, president and chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund, welcomed the plan.

Corrections to articles regarding the misstated amount of debt held by private contractor Four Seasons and the misquotation of the statement by Hong Kong, China lawmaker Peter Shiu on the ban on ivory sales.

The article informs that the legislature of Hong Kong, China has voted to ban all ivory sales by 2021 to end the trade and protect elephants from poaching and presents the views of Alex Hofford, campaigner with the organization WildAid Hong Kong.

Corrections to several articles in previous issues are presented including a report on 12 teachers accused of sexually abusing students, an article about U.S. Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson's diplomatic strategy for Iran, and the sale of elephant ivory by a gallery in Manhattan, New York City.

The article reports on a law in New York which bans the sale of ivory from elephant tusks to prevent the extinction of animals.

The article reports on the pronouncement of Kenya-based wildlife group Save the Elephants that prices of elephant tusks have fallen due to tougher economic times and the country's to shutting down its domestic ivory trade.

The article reports the Chinese government's announcement of shutting down the country's ivory market and what experts claim to be its impact on the plight of elephants and also mentioned are the new scramble for ivory, about early ivory trade, and the response from Africa on the matter.

The article discusses Chinese consumers' demand for ivory deriving from African elephant tusks from the late 1980s through early 2013. An overview of the legal aspects of the ivory trade, both internationally and within China, is provided. Animal rights activists' efforts to prevent the killing of elephants is discussed. The relationship between Chinese culture and ivory is also discussed.

The article reports on the move of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to burn a pyre of elephant tusks as a way to express the country's commitment to end the illegal ivory trade that threatens wild elephants into extinction.

The article reports on a group of saffron-robed monks who destroyed more than 300 ivories obtained through elephant poaching during a seaside ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The article presents a study by the researchers at the University of Washington and Interpol on key role of the DNA evidence retrieved from elephant dung, tissue and hair in helping identify the origins of illegal ivory.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to target wildlife illegal trafficking, especially selling and buying of illegal elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns.

The article focuses on the report issued by British nongovernmental organization Environmental Investigation Agency which reveals that the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his delegations in Tanzania in March 2013 has been directed to procure illegal ivory and not to promote economic ties.

Describes Kenya's latest action taken to persuade the world to halt the ivory trade, a 12-ton bonfire of elephant tusks lit by President Daniel arap Moi. Ivory trade's threat to tourism, Kenya's biggest foreign-exchange earner; Emphasis on Kenya's determination to win a formal ivory trade ban at an upcoming meeting in Switzerland.

The article reports on the decision by the Budapest Festival Orchestra to borrow violin bows to perform concerts at the Lincoln Center in New York City after seven of its bows were seized at the John F. Kennedy International Airport over forbidden African elephant ivory.

The article reports on the U.S. federal rules aimed at blocking the sale of ivory to protect endangered elephants in 2014 which caused concerns from various sectors including musicians, antiques dealers and gun collectors.

The article reports on the discovery of tons of ivory from more than 100 elephant tusks at jewelry designer Raja Jewels Inc. in New York City by the city investigators in 2012 which were transformed into beads, chest seats and animal figures.

The article reports on the destruction of more than six tons of confiscated ivory ornaments and tusks by Chinese officials in Dongguan, Guangdung, China on January 6, 2014 in an anticipation address the issue of elephant poaching problem.

The article reports that David McNevin, a former defense attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, has been arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on July 20, 2013 for ivory smuggling.

The authors reflect on the slaughter of African elephants due to the increasing demand for ivory which they believe are pushing the animals into extinction.

The article focuses on the continued deterioration of elephant species in Gabon. It states that elephants in the country have been wiped out due to the growth of hunters that were driven by the high prices of ivory to search for the animal. It also mentions the disappointment of the residents in the country due to the government's lack of effort and conservation policies to preserve the population of elephants.

The article reports on the seizure of more than 100,000 smuggled elephants tusks ivory in Malaysia. It says that the smuggled ivories were placed in a secret compartment in two shipments of mahogany. It states that the shipment originates in the West African nation of Togo and eventually destined in China where the price of ivory shots up to more than $1,000 per pound in some markets.

Two events in the past month illuminate the scope of the market in illegal ivory. On June 27, more than 1,200 elephant tusks were incinerated in Gabon, in a fire lit by the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, as evidence of his country's crackdown on poaching. And last Thursday in New York City, two merchants, operating out of shops on West 45th and West 46th Streets, pleaded guilty to possessing illegal ivory artifacts worth more than $2 million. These events demonstrate two necessary components of any successful effort to control the killing of elephants for their tusks -- vigilance at the source and vigilance at the end-market. Yet the Gabonese bonfire and the arrests and guilty pleas in Manhattan raise a depressing question: Can any animal prized by humans and living in the wild be protected from the economic suction of the human appetite? The answer, when it comes to elephants (and many other species), appears to be no -- at least not without vigilance on a scale we've barely begun to imagine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PROCTER & GAMBLE is bringing one of its oldest and one of its most known brands, Ivory soap, into the 21st century with new packaging, advertising and social media initiatives. P.& G. announced the advertising, by Wieden & Kennedy, based in Portland, Ore., and packaging, by the Cincinnati office of Sterling Brands, last month. The company introduced an online community hosted by the actress Melissa McCarthy at a news conference in New York on Monday night. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Authorities have seized the tusks of 58 elephants, a ton of ivory, after sniffer dogs led investigators to containers at the country's main airport that were bound for Nigeria, officials said Friday. No arrests were made, the police said, and it was not immediately clear why the ivory was being transported to Nigeria; the most common destination for smuggled ivory is Asia. Patrick Omondi, an expert on elephants at the Kenya Wildlife Service, said ivory smuggling had increased since the 2007 temporary lifting of a ban by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. It allowed a one-time sale by countries that had stockpiles of ivory from elephants that had died naturally or problem elephants killed by wildlife officials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said Friday was the country's largest ivory seizure. The 247 tusks, some up to 6.5 feet long, were found Wednesday during an X-ray scan of a shipping container labeled as frozen mackerel, customs officials said. They valued the tusks at $3.3 million. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A rare West African ivory mask, taken by the British during a 19th-century invasion of the city-state Benin in present-day Nigeria, was withdrawn from a Sotheby's sale after online protests, The Independent reported. The mask, which dates from the 16th century and is thought to have been worn by the king of Benin on ceremonial occasions, is the last known example of its type in private hands and was expected to fetch as much as $7 million. It was one of several items scheduled to be sold in February at Sotheby's in London by the descendants of Lt. Col. Sir Henry Gallwey, a vice consul of a British protectorate in Nigeria who took part in the 1897 invasion of Benin when the British deposed the king and burned and looted the city. They auctioned off much of their booty to pay for the offensive; several objects, including a mask similar to the one withdrawn from the auction, ended up in the British Museum. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

They came through Kennedy Airport from Africa in boxes marked ''African Wooden Handicraft'' and ''Wooden Statues.'' Inside those innocuous cartons, federal authorities said on Wednesday, were what appeared to be delicately carved and colorfully painted wooden objects, looking like statues, decorative snakes and musical instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Zimbabwe sold almost four tons of ivory on Monday, raising $450,000 to help the economically embattled country protect its elephants and better manage its vast national parks, said Morris Mtsambiwa, director general of the Zimbabwe Parks Authority. The sale in Harare was one in a series of ivory auctions being held for the first time in a decade. Last year, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ruled that Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe could sell 108 tons of stockpiled ivory to approved Japanese and Chinese buyers. Zimbabwe's economic crisis has had a devastating effect on its wildlife, revitalizing the illegal trade in game meat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents several world news briefs. A DNA analysis has revealed that an illegal shipment of elephant ivory caught in Singapore was originally brought from Zambia. Based on isotopic analysis of gallena, a glasslike slag found in La Isabella, a settlement established by Christopher Columbus, researchers have concluded that the settlers had unsuccessfully tried to extract silver from gallena. Chinese scientists have found a new technique for easier recycling of electronic devices.

Reports on the development of a DNA-based statistical method for tracking ivory's origin in Seattle, Washington.

Reports on the sale of elephant ivory, allowed by a United Nations conservation group to three African countries as of November 13, 2002.

Comments on the effect of the possible decision of the U.S. to end the ivory ban on elephants.

Reports that Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe have asked the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to allow limited trade in ivory. Opposition by Western countries and conservation groups to this request; What Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said; Comments from Greenpeace spokeswoman, Isabel McCrea.