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                    [Title] => Ivory dreams Am I the only one reluctant to see those elephant tusks go?
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News reports have it that five tons of seized elephant tusks were crushed into obliteration last Friday by our well meaning government officials.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134681 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1420927 [AuthorName] => Joseph Gonzales [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 956803 [Title] => DENR destroys 5 tons of smuggled ivory tusks [Summary] =>

Using a road roller, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) destroyed at least five tons of smuggled elephant tusks worth about P420 million inside the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) compound in Quezon City yesterday morning.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 956045 [Title] => Probe of P670-M missing elephant tusks sought [Summary] =>

A party-list congressman is seeking an investigation into the disappearance of seized elephant tusks estimated to be worth more than P670 million.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1386283 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz and Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 885223 [Title] => Malaysia nets 1,500 elephant tusks headed to China [Summary] =>

Malaysian authorities have seized 1,500 elephant tusks in a $20 million shipment that was believed to have been headed to China.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-12 12:30:12 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3313/elephanttusks.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 854462 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Get the buyers [Summary] =>

Back in 2005, over 6,700 kilograms of elephant tusks were seized at Manila’s South Harbor and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img209/1285/startoonthumbk.gif ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 757715 [Title] => Malaysia seizes hundreds of African elephant tusks [Summary] =>

Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth 4 million ringgit ($1.3 million) that were being shipped to Cambodia.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-13 15:32:56 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 740475 [Title] => Vietnam confiscates 1 ton of elephant tusks [Summary] =>

Vietnamese authorities say they have uncovered more than a ton of elephant tusks that smugglers were attempting to illegally take to China.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-24 11:33:53 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 671674 [Title] => Thailand seizes 2 tons of elephant tusks [Summary] =>

Thai authorities have seized two tons of elephant tusks from Africa hidden in a shipping container, the country's largest ivory seizure.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-01 16:05:29 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 558053 [Title] => BOC: DENR mum on pilfered elephant tusks [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said yesterday it has been a week since it asked the Department of Natural Resources about the pilfered elephant tusks, but it has yet to receive a reply from the DENR.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 555992 [Title] => BOC teams to help locate missing elephant tusks [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is sending several teams to locate the estimated P100 million worth of smuggled elephant tusks, which were discovered missing from a storage facility in Quezon City.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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