Singapore authorities on Monday destroyed 7.9 tonnes of illegal ivory seized from smugglers over the last two years.
The massive collection, worth S$13 million ($9.6 million), comes from poachers attempting to use Singapore as a port-of-call in order to conceal the shipments’ illegal contents.
A rock-crusher destroying some of the ivory.
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Smugglers often use destinations like Singapore, where there is little wildlife poaching activity, to mask shipments coming from typical hotbeds of such origin. Read more…
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