From My Sinchew
HANOI – Vietnam has seized two tonnes of illegal elephant tusks found stashed in bags of shells being shipped to China, state media reported Wednesday.
A customs officer examines elephant tusks
“The shipment is supposed to be transferred by road to the Lang Son border gate, heading for China,” it added, without specifying when the tusks had been discovered.
The report did not give the value of the shipment, but a haul of 769 kilos (1,695 pounds) of ivory tusks in Hong Kong last week had an estimated sale price of $1.49 million, according to the city’s customs officials.
Elephant tusks and other body parts are prized in both China and Vietnam for decoration, as talismans, and for use in traditional medicine.
The international trade in ivory, with rare exceptions, has been outlawed since 1989 after the population of African elephants dropped from millions in the mid-20th century to just 600,000 by the end of the 1980s.
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