Nature in danger: Customs officials inspecting confiscated elephant tusks smuggled in from Mozambique at the Customs Department in Bangkok. — EPA
THAI authorities should be applauded for seizing a shipment of African elephant tusks at the airport, but upbraided for then allowing the intended recipient to slip out of the country.
Did authorities immediately alert airport security about where his flight was headed? Probably not. Thai cops can’t be expected to think clearly like that.
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