| Kenya siezes Poached ivory and rhino horn |
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The flight originated in Mozambique and stopped in Nairobi en route to Thailand and finally Laos. It was not clear where the items came from; Omondi said they could have been smuggled into Mozambique from Tanzania or South Africa. Poaching elephants and black rhinos is illegal. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) banned trade in ivory in 1989 after a wholesale slaughter of African elephants by poachers in the 1970s and 1980s. Rampant poaching decimated the black rhino population from a high of 65 000 across Southern Africa to now only 3 600 black rhinos.                |
Nairobi - Kenya seized more than 300kg of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn on a cargo plane headed to Asia on Tuesday, wildlife officials said. The contraband was hidden in wooden boxes shaped like coffins.
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