KENYA ILLEGAL IVORY

AP News - 943 days ago
KENYA ILLEGAL IVORY
Kenya Wildlife Service officials display tusks which were part of a cargo that included 16 elephant tusks weighing 280 kg. which were impounded Tuesday July 14, 2009 in a cargo plane heading to Bangkok, Thailand when it stopped over at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the Kenyan capital city, Nairobi. The cargo from Mozambique was destined for Laos . Wildlife officials complained that there is rise in poaching since the ban on the world trade in ivory was lifted two years ago to allow Southern African countries sell stock piles of Ivory accrued from culling and natural deaths of elephants.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)