Thai customs seize two tonnes of African ivory

Authorities discovered the shipment of ivory on Wednesday, when they searched a container that appeared suspicious during a routine scan. Officers found the ivory packed into plastic bags and mixed in with 800 boxes of frozen mackerel.The shipment, falsely declared as one tonne of mackerel, was being shipped from Kenya to India by PJ Frozen Limited Partnership, a frozen food importer.Customs officials displayed the ivory, worth over 100 million baht ($3.3 million), during a news conference on Friday.There are 247 ivory, thats at least 120 elephants. From the ivory, we can assume that they killed the elephants and did not saw off their tusks. We can see remnants of elephant skin on it, which theyve burnt to remove. So we can assume that the elephants were killed, Prasong Poonthanet, Director General of Customs in Thailand, told reporters.Poonthanet said that the ivory would be kept at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation. The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned all international trade in ivory in 1989.