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dipsydoodle

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Sun Oct 21, 2012, 05:06 AM Oct 2012

Hong Kong seizes more than 1,000 smuggled ivory tusks

Hong Kong has seized its largest ever haul of illicit ivory tusks and ornaments, which had been smuggled from Africa, authorities say.

Customs officers in Hong Kong and neighbouring Guangdong confiscated the ivory, worth HK$26.7m (£2.2m) and weighing a total of 3.8 tonnes, in raids at a container port last week, the Hong Kong government said.

"It is the biggest ever in Hong Kong in the number of tusks seized in a single seizure," a government spokesman said.

Customs officers found 972 tusks and the ornaments in bags of plastic scraps inside a container that arrived from Tanzania on Tuesday, the government said. Another 237 tusks were found the next day in a container carrying beans from Kenya.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/21/hong-kong-seizes-ivory-tusks

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