David Warther is a full-time ivory carver for a nonprofit museum in Ohio’s Amish community. He is a supplier of bone, legal pre-ban ivory, and mammoth ivory to restorers at the Smithsonian and Colonial Williamsburg as well as to luthiers and other artisans. He has helped wildlife conservation efforts by providing expert testimony in Federal court against smugglers, and has worked as an informant to federal wildlife agents against traffickers in illegal ivory overseas and in the USA.

▪ bio current as of 2012