NAIROBI, Kenya: A senior Kenyan official says rangers and police have arrested two men who were transporting 1,500 pounds (700 kilograms) of elephant tusks in southern Kenya.
He says it is the largest seizure of illegal ivory in recent years.
George Osuri says Kenyan Wildlife Service rangers and police arrested the Kenyan man and a Tanzanian man on Saturday after inspecting their sports utility vehicle.
He said Monday that authorities found 33 whole elephants tusks and 57 pieces of tusks.
Osuri is the senior warden of Amboseli National Park, where the arrests were made. He says the elephants may have been poached in Kenya or Tanzania.
Poaching devastated Kenya's elephant population in the 1970s. But a 1989 global ban on the ivory trade has helped the population recoup.
