Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know what that vintage button is really made of? In fact, it was plastic that caused the decline in demand for the tagua ...

Taguá are one of three peccary species living in the Americas and are the only ones found nowhere else but the Gran Chaco. Scientists say that the Chaco is disappearing at an alarming rate – with ...

During World War I and World War II, some of the buttons on U.S. military uniforms were carved out of tagua, a durable white nut about the size of a golf ball that grows on a South American palm tree.

The tagua seed reaches 9cm (3.5 inches) in length, and can be carved like ivory Onno Heerma van Voss jokes that he never intended to be a conservationist, but he is helping to save the African ...

Onno Heerma van Voss jokes that he never intended to be a conservationist, but he is helping to save the African elephant. Numbers of elephants in the wild are still falling; it's estimated 100 of ...