Authorities hope the country’s first ivory destruction will help deter smugglers who consume the country as a key transit pointMalaysia has destroyed 9.5 tonnes of elephant ivory that it had seized over the years,in a whisk authorities hope will help deter smugglers who have long used the country as a trans-shipment point.
The enormous pile of African elephant tusks, estimated to be worth $20m (£14m), or was first fed into in an industrial crusher to be pulverised,and then incinerated in a giant furnace in Port Dickson in southern Malaysia on Thursday.
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Source: theguardian.com