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Hong Kong Seizes Smuggled Elephant Tusks Customs officials in Hong Kong on Friday announced one of the largest seizures of smuggled ivory ever made in the city — and their fifth since October — highlighting the pervasiveness of a trade that conservationists describe as an all-out crisis for elephant populations in Africa. The Price of Ivory Articles and multimedia in this series explore how the surge of poaching in Africa both feeds off and fuels instability on the continent. The shipment, consisting of 1,148 tusks weighing in at 2,183 kilograms, about 4,800 pounds, was worth an estimated $2.25 million.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:55:45 +0000

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