Lome: In the Last Week, nearly 4 tonnes of ivory have been discovered at the tiny West African nation’s main port in the capital.
On January 23, nearly 1.7 tonnes of ivory was found in a shipping container bound for Vietnam from Lome, while on Thursday, a further 2.1 tonnes were discovered during a search of the same shipment.
3 people have been arrested, one is Vietnamese man and other two were belong from Togolese nationals.
According to the Andre Johnson (Togo’s environments and forest resources minister), Investigation are on going to ensure that the network is completely dismantled.
Also said that, “Togo has today become one of the transit countries for these shameless traffickers,”
Andre Johnson said, Elephants are the world biggest and largest land animal of the world and due to the elephants Africa’s become biggest tourist attraction.
According to the an estimate, at least 22,000 e elephants were killed illegally in Africa only in 2012
Africa: Togo Crackdown Against The Ivory Trafficking Leading Rate
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