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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Thu Dec 29, 2011, 08:48 AM Dec 2011

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Elephant poaching: 'Record year' for ivory seizures.

More elephant tusks were seized in 2011 than in any year since 1989, when the ivory trade was banned, international wildlife trade group Traffic says.

The group said elephants have had a "horrible year", with 23 tonnes of ivory seized - representing at least 2,500 dead animals.

Trade in ivory was banned in 1989 to save elephants from extinction.

But it has continued illegally because of huge demand in Asia, where some believe ivory has medicinal properties.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16353204

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