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28 July 2011
African ivory up in smoke
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5 tonnes of contraband ivory has been torched in a ceremony in Kenya.
It was seized in Singapore nearly 10 years ago and traced back to Africa by DNA tests.
Its destruction follows an agreement in May by Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya to fight poaching.
Some 335 tusks and more than 40,000 ivory carvings, together worth 16 million dollars, went up in smoke.
５トンの禁制品の象牙がケニヤの式典で火をつけて燃やされていた。
それは約１０年前に押収され、DNAテストによってアフリカからのものだと判明された。
その処分は密猟と戦うためにマラウィ、タンザニア及びケニヤとで交わされた合意に従うものだ。
およそ３３５の牙と４万個以上の象牙の彫刻品で、両方で１６百万ドルに相当するものが煙と消えた。
contraband （輸出入）禁制品
contraband items are goods that are illegally brought into or taken out of a country.
torched
The verb to torch means to set fire to something to destroy it.
seized
From the verb 'to seize'. When the authorities seize goods they take illegal or stolen items away from someone.
traced
In this context to trace something back to somewhere means to use different techniques to find where something originally came from.
poaching 密猟
Poaching is the crime of illegally hunting and selling animals or animal parts. A poacher is a person who poaches.
＜爺メモ＞
tusk：牙 (taskではありません）