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Bookmark or Share- Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife FundElephant tusks serve many purposes. These extended teeth can be used to protect the elephant's trunk, lift and move objects, gather food, and strip bark from trees. They can also be used for defense. During times of drought, elephants even use their tusks to dig holes to find water underground.
- Two years after China bans elephant ivory trade, demand for elephant ...More than 20,000 elephants annually are killed for their tusks. Yet two years later, China’s policy change appears to be having an impact. In the wake of the ban, WWF conducted annual surveys of Chinese consumers and found a promising decline in elephant ivory buying.
- In a disturbing new trend, poachers are killing Myanmar’s elephants for ...For decades, they’ve faced the threats of habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, and, to a lesser extent, poaching. But poaching for body parts other than tusks (only male Asian elephants grow tusks, and only 1% of male elephants in Myanmar have tusks) is on the rise.
- Ivory in the Arctic | Pages | WWF - World Wildlife FundWWF often communicates about ivory in our efforts to end the unsustainable poaching of elephants for their tusks. WWF recognizes that the word "ivory" can include material from several species in addition to elephants, including mastodon and mammoth tusks, hippopotamus teeth, narwhal tusks, and walrus tusks.
- African Forest Elephant | Species | WWF - World Wildlife FundAfrican forest elephants are smaller than African savanna elephants, the other African elephant species. Their ears are more oval-shaped and their tusks are straighter and point downward (the tusks of savanna elephants curve outwards).
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