The Buzz | Thailand seizes 87 African ivory tusks worth USD800,000

Officials in Thailand say they seized 315 kilograms of African elephant tusks worth an estimated USD800,000 at Bangkok’s international airport. Thai Customs said that the haul of 87 ivory tusks was found March 27 in a dozen barrels sent from Mozambique on a Kenya Airways flight.
A routine X-ray at Suvarnabhumi International Airport detected the contraband. A Kenyan man was due to pick up the parcels, but is believed to have fled the country after learning they were seized.
Thai authorities alerted Kenyan officials, who discovered 561 kilograms of ivory tusks waiting to be shipped to the same man.