Illegal ivory worth $1.4m seized in Hong Kong

[xchrom]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/04/illegal-ivory-seized-hong-kong


Part of a shipment of 779 pieces of ivory seized from a shipping container by customs officials in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters

Hong Kong authorities have made their third big seizure of illegal ivory in three months, confiscating more than a tonne of elephant tusks worth $1.4m, customs officials said on Friday.

Customs officers seized 779 pieces of ivory weighing 1,323kg (2,916lb) in a shipping container that arrived at Hong Kong's port from Kenya after passing through Malaysia.

The officers discovered the ivory after x-raying the container, which was declared to be carrying architectural stones. Forty sacks holding the ivory were found inside five wooden crates, hidden under rocks.

[Gregorian]

1. What kind of an asshole is buying ivory? Fuck them.

How many elephants even exist any more. There can't be hundreds of dead elephants that they took these from.

[Nihil]

2. Now *that* is what I call an obscene photograph.

> Customs officers seized 779 pieces of ivory weighing 1,323kg (2,916lb) in a shipping container
> that arrived at Hong Kong's port from Kenya after passing through Malaysia.

"pieces of ivory"

F*ck.