An estimated 1.2 million elephants roam across Africa.

Less than 600,000 elephants remain in Africa.

• CITES ban the international commercial trade in African elephant ivory by placing species on Appendix I as most-endangered species.
• Kenyan officials burn 12 tons worth of stockpiled ivory.

• Zambia burns 9.5 tons of seized ivory.
• The UAE burns 12 tons of confiscated ivory.

CITES approves a one-off sale of 49.4 metric tons of stockpiled ivory from Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe to Japan.

CITES approves another one-off sale of 102 metric tons of ivory from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to China and Japan.

• Research published in 2014 indicates that 100,000 elephants were killed for their tusks between 2010 and 2012, equivalent to one elephant every 15 minutes.
• 30,000 elephants poached in Africa: CITES recognises that elephant poaching has reached ‘unsustainable’ levels.
• Gabon burns nearly 5 tons of ivory.

• Research study led by Colorado State University, in partnership with STE and KWS, reveals that 100,000 elephants killed for their ivory between 2010 and 2012, equating to 'one elephant killed every 15 minutes'.
• The US government destroys nearly 6 tons of confiscated ivory.
• Philippines burns 5 tons of illegal ivory.

• African savanna elephant populations decline by 30% in seven years, equal to a loss of 144,000 elephants since 2007.
• Hong Kong vows to destroy 26 tons of confiscated ivory by the end of 2016 and begins with crushing 1 ton.
• France becomes first European country to destroy ivory stockpile as 3 tons is publicly crushed.
• The US Government reinstates a US ban on commercial African elephant ivory imports.
• New Jersey and New York make history as the first US states to pass ivory trade restrictions.

• China imposes a one-year ban on ivory carving imports.
• USA States of California, Vermont, Illinois, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Florida, Oklahoma, Virginia, Maryland, Washington State, Iowa, and Connecticut introduce proposals to ban the sale of ivory and rhino horn.
•  Singapore seizes biggest ivory shipment in a decade of 3.7 tons bound for Vietnam.

• Kenyan officials burn 105 tons of ivory in Nairobi National Park in the world’s largest ivory stockpile destruction.
• Singapore destroys 8 tons of ivory confiscated over just two years. Over 2,700 tusks were destroyed, representing 5,400 elephants slaughtered for the illegal ivory trade.
• A record number of global ivory seizures are reported throughout the year, with almost 40 tons of illegal ivory seized, nearly three times greater than the amount seized in 2007.
• China pledges to close all ivory markets by end of 2017, though Hong Kong indicates it will take until 2021 to phase out its own ivory trade.
• An estimated 415,000 elephants remain across Africa (Great Elephant Census).

• CITES reports that elephant poaching in Africa has declined for the 5th year in a row, but global illegal ivory trade transactions remain as high as in the previous six years.
• 2 tons of confiscated ivory is publicly crushed in New York’s Central Park.
• Named as the biggest legal exporter of ivory in the world, the UK holds a public consultation on a proposed ivory ban and receives more than 70,000 responses, with 88% of respondents in favour of ending UK ivory trade.

• China’s ban on ivory trade comes into effect Australia holds its first ivory crush in Melbourne, with ivory donated by citizens to be publicly destroyed.
• Authorities in Singapore seize 3.5 tons of raw ivory bound for Vietnam.
• UK Government confirms plans to introduce a comprehensive ban on domestic ivory trade in 2019, through implementation of the Ivory Act (December 2018).
• Taiwan pledges to revise its laws to bring in a ban making it illegal to sell or purchase ivory within its borders by 2021.