“France destroys confiscated ivory worth around €6 million in front of the Eiffel Tower, ahead of a London summit on fighting the illegal wildlife trade. 
More than three tons of ivory worth around €6 million (£5m) were on Thursday pulverised yards from the Eiffel Tower in a public display of France’s commitment to an international crackdown on the illegal trade ahead of a key London summit.
Huge elephant tusks, some sculpted, were passed along a chain of French customs agents who dropped them onto a conveyer belt before they were crushed to tiny pieces in the first such public exercise in Europe.”
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AUTHOR: Henry Samuel
SOURCE: Telegraph
