FILE PHOTO: More than 500 pieces of ivory tusks are displayed after being seized by the Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong, November 16, 2012, from a shipping container that arrived from Tanzania. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has seized ivory tusks equivalent to killing at least 117 elephants, its tourism minister said, part of its drive to stamp out organised criminal networks involved in years of industrial-scale poaching.
The elephant population in Tanzania, famed for its wildlife reserves, shrank from 110,000 in 2009 to barely 43,000 in 2014, according to a 2015 census, with conservation groups blaming rampant poaching. The government says numbers have now started to recover.
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