La lunga agonia degli elefanti africani
Nuovo sequestro di avorio
di redazione of elephant tusks. The three were arrested at the airport about to embark Lubumbashi to Nairobi, Kenya.
This is the second significant seizure in a short time. Four days ago, in fact, in Hong Hong has been the seizure of 384 elephant tusks from Tanzania. On the last seizure, however, confirms once again the centrality of the airport in Nairobi. At the end of August (see article
GeaPress), in fact, two tons of ivory and rhinoceros horns were seized five out of Kenya. The final destination was the Indochinese peninsula (Malaysia) and here, probably China. Also from Nairobi, is a popular starting tusks seized last July in Bangkok, Thailand (see article
GeaPress).
the base of the ever flourishing trade in elephant tusks, there are the incredible permissions provided by the Washington Convention on trade in flora and fauna threatened with extinction. It is in this case from seizures of tusks and hunting selection. In the first case, the ivory would be destroyed, but governments can enter it, if certified, the legal market. In the second case, despite the slaughter of African elephants that has reduced to less than one fourth the elephants living twenty years ago, authorizing the hunting of selection on the basis of surveys conducted by the authorities of countries with dubious economies. E 'but this often to cover trade in contraband. A simple falsification of documentation.
Ironically, Kenya is one of those African countries that has most fought for the total ban of all hunting of elephants. At the airport of the capital, however, there are frequent seizures. The importers, however, are the Arab countries and China, unfortunately, authorized by the Washington Convention on imports of ivory. For the large stock of traffickers are now joined by a great deal lower traffic per game, but more insidious for the number of importers, many times unaware of the ban. Chinese tourists have flocked to tens of thousands, For example, the recent World Cup championships in South Africa and in several cases found in possession of ivory objects. Do not be surprised, since that World Cup was just the opportunity for western tourists to go and shoot the lions kept in cages (see article GeaPress and
interview with Chris Mercer). (GEAPRESS - Reproduction prohibited without mentioning the source). 
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