Ivory Tusks
Nov 10, 2009 at 16:15 | Source: Reuters
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Guinea police seized over 800 pieces of ivory, including sculptures and elephant tusks, in the capital Conakry during a raid that led to six arrests, police said Friday. The arrests were made on May 19 and 21, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
May 25, 2012 at 15:28 | Source: YAHOO!
Liyanage says intelligence reports were analyzed and the container was opened Tuesday. Customs officials found 359 ivory tusks, weighing about 1.4 tonnes. Liyanage said Wednesday that the agents for the container had declared that it contained scrapped plastic.
May 23, 2012 at 15:16 | Source: CBC
The warden in charge Hellsgate National Park, Nelly Palmeris, said KWS intelligence officers had received information from the public over the ivory. "The officers got a tip-off about some suspects who were trying to sell two tusks and we decided to lay an ...
May 26, 2012 at 10:04 | Source: AllAfrica.com
KATHMANDU: Four suspected ivory smugglers were arrested along with two elephant tusks from Balaju of Kathmandu on Sunday. Police said on Monday that a team of security personnel deputed from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Balaju nabbed Krishna ...
May 13, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: Himalayan Times
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sri Lankan authorities said they seized around 350 illegal elephant tusks weighing nearly 1.5 tons in Colombo port on Tuesday – marking the single biggest ivory haul in the island nation.
May 24, 2012 at 15:07 | Source: Boston Globe
Earlier this week rangers in West Pokot, in Kenya's Rift Valley, shot dead five suspected ivory poachers, recovering 50kg of elephant tusks. A national park in Cameroon recently lost some 450 elephants – almost its entire population. Charlie Mayhew ...
May 25, 2012 at 10:20 | Source: Daily Telegraph
The Senate hearing on the rapid rise in smuggling came as Kenya said that 359 elephant tusks smuggled in shipping containers ... and the more so since we have been through these ivory crises before and should have found solutions by now."
May 25, 2012 at 04:36 | Source: msnbc.com
Liyanage says intelligence reports were analyzed and the container was opened Tuesday. Customs officials found 359 ivory tusks, weighing about 1.5 tons. Liyanage said Wednesday that the agents for the container had declared that it contained ...
May 23, 2012 at 10:08 | Source: Pioneer Press
Customs officers found 359 ivory tusks. Mr Liyanage said yesterday that the agents for the container had declared that it contained plastic scrap. He said no arrests have been made as yet. “We confiscated the ivory under Cites [Convention on ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:01 | Source: scotsman.com
The man writhed on the ground for a few seconds, unable to escape the blows from the trunk as the beast repeatedly gored its ivory tusks into the man’s abdomen. Like a gladiator it pinned down its victim, using its tusks with precision to deliver the ...
May 19, 2012 at 01:02 | Source: Deccan Herald