1.   Animal-rights groups claim any trade will lead to poaching because of the difficulty in ensuring illegal ivory is not mixed with legal shipments.

2.   Animal-rights groups claim any trade will spark poaching because of the difficulty in ensuring illegal ivory is not blended with legal shipments.

3.   Leading independent conservation groups insist Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Japan do not have sufficient controls to stop illegal ivory from infiltrating legal trade.

4.   Martin said that much of the illegal African ivory in the southern Asia region came through China.

5.   Thailand is the largest southeast Asian buyer of illegal African ivory that is carved into jewelry for sale to European tourists and business people, a researcher said Friday.

6.   Some officials deny illegal ivory is a problem in Thailand.

7.   The Norwegian prime minister is facing an investigation for unwittingly having smuggled illegal ivory from Africa, an Internet newspaper on Wednesday cited police as saying.

8.   The Norwegian prime minister is facing an investigation for unwittingly having smuggled illegal ivory from Africa, an Internet newspaper reported Wednesday, citing police.

9.   The technique was developed to enable researchers to trace the origins of illegal ivory.

10.   They argued any trade would lead to poaching because of the difficulty in ensuring illegal ivory is not mixed in with legal shipments.