Sentences with phrase «illegal ivory seizures»

This surge was directly correlated to a more than quadrupling of local black - market ivory prices paid to poachers and tripling in the volume and number of illegal ivory seizures through Kenyan ports of transit.

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«But when you look at large ivory seizures, which represent 70 percent of illegal ivory by weight, you get a different picture.»

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.

The recovered items represent the largest seizure of illegal elephant ivory in New York State history.