(Kenya- CH): Chinese found with ivory at Kenya airport

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*Chinese found with ivory at Kenya airport*

 

July 16 2008 at 02:59PM

 

Nairobi, Kenya - Kenya's wildlife service says two Chinese women are being

questioned at Nairobi's international airport after being found with 36

pieces of ivory.

 

The women were stopped at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday

morning, said Kentice Tikomo, a spokesperson for the Kenyan Wildlife

Service. They were booked on a flight to China, she said.

 

Kenya's elephant population has grown from around 16 000 to 27 000 since the

UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species banned the ivory

trade in 1989.

 

But that is far fewer than the estimated 167 000 elephants that lived in

Kenya in 1973, before poaching devastated the country's herds. - Sapa-AP

 

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