Customs officials seize 310kg of illegal ivory at Hamad International Airport
Just a day after news broke about the nabbing of a large amount of marijuana and illegal liquor at the Hamad International Airport, another huge bust has been reported.
However this time, it is not drugs, but 310kg of illegal ivory tusks that have been confiscated, reported Gulf Times.
The bust was jointly orchestrated by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) and the General Authority of Customs (GAC) at the Hamad International Airport.
The cargo, which was coming from an African nation and bound for an Asian country, was detected while transiting through Doha.
After the GAC got wind of the cargo, they alerted MME’s Executive Department dealing with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
“We’ll prepare a detailed report with pictures about the seized shipments and also notify the secretariat of the CITES about it,” Mubarak Al Marri, head of wildlife section at Environmental Protection, Nature Reserves and Wildlife Department, told The Peninsula.
CITES was signed in Washington on March 3, 1973 and went into force in 1975. Qatar joined the agreement with decree No 19 for 2001.
This is worse than drugs that are sold and bought by people who are equally responsible; ivory trade preys on innocent animals that can't speak and whose only fault is being born with tusks and horns..
This is worse than drugs that are sold and bought by people who are equally responsible; ivory trade preys on innocent animals that can't speak and whose only fault is being born with tusks and horns..
We don't even need a single gram here.