It has been alleged or suspected that the legal ivory factories in China launder poached ivory to make carvings. In … of carvers is stable and ivory carving is time-intensive. Diversion of carver-effort to use illegal ivory must come at … throughput is detected. This implies that the legal factory system is largely clean of illegal ivory. The results also provide …

harvest or deter poaching. A fixed-effects panel-data regression using behaviour across eleven provinces was employed. The …

The size, logistical and political constraints of China has made it difficult to research the black-market in ivory. In … search costs for illegal ivory in different market segments, using legal ivory as the benchmark. It was hypothesised that … useful method for investigating ivory-markets like China …

The recent and rapid increase in elephant poaching has caused international alarm. A panel-data regression model was … Africa can also be linked to the raw ivory seizures. This evidence also indicates that the recent upsurge is more supply … ivory in stockpiles out of Africa. This raises doubt that the upsurge is a demand-driven event related to the current …

The recent and rapid increase in elephant poaching has caused alarm. Noting that shipping containers are the main … explanation of the recent poaching surge. Evidence currently indicates that raw ivory is being stockpiled for speculative reasons … smuggling technique and that transport costs have been overlooked to date, panel-data models are employed to test this variable …

whether limited legalized trade in otherwise illegal goods can be helpful for achieving policy goals like reducing poaching. …

poaching has not subsided. The paper suggests two additional measures that might help ameliorate the situation—eliminating the …