A shipment of illegal ivory, rhino horns and leopard skins worth $ 5,3million (R 53million) was seized in Hong Kong’s second big bust of endangered species products in a month.
The haul is also the latest in a string of big ivory seizures over the past year in the southern Chinese city.
Some 1120 ivory tusks, 13 rhino horns and five pieces of leopard skin weighing a total of 2266 kilograms were confiscated at Hong Kong’s port, the government announced yesterday.
They were found on Tuesday hidden in a shipping container declared to be wood from Nigeria.
Wildlife activists say China’s growing presence in Africa is to blame for an unprecedented surge in poaching of elephants for their tusks. Most of these are believed to be smuggled into China and Thailand to make ivory ornaments.
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South African Press Association - Associated Press
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