Poachers used chainsaws to cut off the animal’s trunk and tusks before abandoning its carcass on the plains of the southern African country.

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The lower jaw just wasn’t cutting it anymore, quite literally, with proboscideans now using the trunk alone to efficiently yank grasses out of the ground, instead of lower tusks to cut off ...

Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said Friday was the country's largest ivory seizure.

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The police seized four elephant tusks weighing seven kilograms, a car, and two bikes used for smuggling. Investigations revealed these tusks were cut off dead elephants 20 years ago in Mettur forest.

Msambweni OCPD Joseph Chebusit said police got a tip off from the public who informed them that there were elephant's tusks in the woman's house.

Sources said heavy tools were used to cut the tusks by the poachers. “It is certain that unscrupulous persons took away the elephant’s tusks by using axe-like tools to cut part of the head.

Police in Kwale County on Friday impounded 41.9 kilogrammes of elephant tusks worth about Sh2 million.