Friday 20 July 2012

Thai customs seize nearly ½ tonne of ivory at Bangkok Airport

Ivory arrived on flight from Kenya
July 2012. The latest in an ever increasing, and hugely worrying, litany of huge ivory seizures has occurred at Bangkok Airport, where Thai Customs have found some half a tonne of ivory in packing cases that arrived by plane from Kenya. 


The current rate of elephant poaching in Africa is as high as it has ever been, and as a % of the population left if it by far the worst the world has ever known. Central Africa has been particularly hard hit, with elephant populations in Cameroon, CAR, DRC, Sudan and Chad amongst the countries that have been hardest hit. 

2011 saw a record number of large ivory seizures globally, reflecting the sharp rise in illegal ivory trade underway since 2007. Although official confirmation of the volume of ivory involved in some cases has not yet been registered, what is clear is the dramatic increase in the number of large-scale seizures, over 800 kg in weight, that tookplace in 2011-at least 13 of them.

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