Vietnam 掴むs 125 キロs of rhino horn hidden in plaster

Officials found 125 kilos of rhino horn encased in plaster

公式の/役人s 設立する 125 キロs of rhino horn encased in plaster

Fifty-five pieces of rhino horn were 設立する encased in plaster at an airport in the Vietnamese 資本/首都, 当局 said Sunday, as the country tries to 割れ目 負かす/撃墜する on sophisticated 野性生物 密輸するing 大勝するs.

The 共産主義者 明言する/公表する is both a 消費 中心 and popular 輸送 point for the multibillion dollar 貿易(する) in animal parts.

The 125 キログラム (275 続けざまに猛撃する) 運ぶ/漁獲高 of rhino horn discovered at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport on Thursday was 設立する after the carefully disguised 出荷/船積み 誘発するd 疑惑.

Images of the 破産した/(警察が)手入れする show large rhino horns and smaller pieces sitting on a (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する and police using 棒s to break the casts apart.

"It took half a day to break them open," a 安全 source told AFP.

It was not すぐに (疑いを)晴らす which African country the 出荷/船積み 起こる/始まるd from.

The parts were 設立する the same day police 逮捕(する)d a 重要な 野性生物 trafficking 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う and two other men after seven frozen tiger carcasses were discovered in their 乗り物 in a parking lot.

The 破産した/(警察が)手入れするs follow a 記録,記録的な/記録する seizure in Singapore a week ago of nearly nine tonnes of ivory and a 抱擁する stash of pangolin 規模s 運命にあるd for Vietnam.

Elephant tusks, pangolins, tiger p arts and rhino horn are all sold on the 黒人/ボイコット market in Vietnam, while the 残り/休憩(する) is 密輸するd on to 中国.

But rhino horn is 特に prized, with one キログラム fetching up to $60,000.

It is in high 需要・要求する in Vietnam where some believe that it can help cure 病気s and hangovers when ground into 砕く.

Poachers in Africa have decimated wild rhino 全住民s to 会合,会う 需要・要求する にもかかわらず the 貿易(する) 存在 banned globally in the 1970s.

Only about 29,000 rhinos 生き残る in the wild, 負かす/撃墜する from half a million at the beginning of the 20th century, によれば conservationists.

Hanoi has long 公約するd to 茎・取り除く the flow of 違法な 野性生物 criss-crossing its 国境s but 専門家s say the 黒人/ボイコット market 固執するs thanks to weak 法律 施行.

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