Thailand seizes two tons of ivory

Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said was the country’s largest ivory seizure.

Thailand seizes two tons of ivory

Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said was the country’s largest ivory seizure.

The 247 tusks, up to 6.5ft long, were found during an X-ray scan of a shipping container labelled as frozen mackerel, customs officials said. They valued the tusks at 100 million baht (€2.26m).

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