Kenya seizes ivory, rhino horn heading to Asia

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Great job Kenyan authorities as always.

 

It seems Kenya is fighting a lonely battle combating this wildlife

terrorism in the whole of African continent.

 

Where are all the supporters of 'Culling', and that CITES?

Hang your heads in shame all those who lobbied hard to get wildlife

auctioned with the bloody hope of ending 'illegal ivory trade'.

 

One can only wonder as to how many plane loads and ship loads of

ivory/ horns etc have already reached the destination safe.

 

Azam

 

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Kenya seizes ivory, rhino horn heading to Asia

 

By TOM ODULA – 23 hours ago

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya seized more than 300 kilograms (660

pounds) of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn — some of it still

bloody — on a cargo plane headed to Asia on Tuesday, wildlife

officials said.

The blood on some of the 16 elephant tusks and two rhino horns

suggested the animals had been killed recently, said Patrick Omondi of

the biodiversity and research division of the Kenya Wildlife Service.

The contraband was hidden in wooden boxes shaped like coffins.

The flight originated in Mozambique and stopped in Nairobi en route to

Thailand and finally Laos. It was not clear where the items came from;

Omondi said they could have been smuggled into Mozambique from

Tanzania or South Africa.

Poaching elephants and black rhinos is illegal. The Convention on

International Trade in Endangered Species banned trade in ivory in

1989 after a wholesale slaughter of African elephants by poachers in

the 1970s and 1980s.

But some countries have done little to enforce the ban.

The black rhino is only found in eastern and southern Africa.

Rampant poaching decimated the black rhino population from a high of

65,000 across Africa in the 1970s. Southern Africa now has a

population of 3,600 black rhinos.

 

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