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Article: Ethiopia hands over to Kenya three dozen elephant tusks seized from smugglers more than a year ago
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- October 7, 2003
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TOM MALITI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-07-2003
Dateline: NAIROBI, Kenya
Ethiopia handed over to Kenya on Tuesday more than three dozen elephant tusks seized 18 months ago from smugglers in a border town _ one of the largest hauls of illegal ivory in recent years, Kenyan wildlife officials said.
Kenyan authorities suspect the 37 tusks _ a total of 145 kilograms (320 pounds) of ivory _ handed over at a ceremony in the border town of Moyale were cut from 50 elephants killed in northern Kenya in the first four months of 2002, said Ngugi Gecaga, a spokesman for Kenya Wildlife Services.
The ivory, which will be stored indefinitely in Kenya, may have been destined for China or Japan, ...