After four ivory tusks were confiscated for their illegal entry to the Dominican Republic, they are now on exhibition at the Museum of Natural History Professor Eugenio de Jesús Marcano (MNHN). The tusks measure two 70 and 80 inches, and another two 80 and 98 inches. The Customs Agency (DGA) donated these to the museum that is located in Plaza de la Cultura, Santo Domingo.
The tusks were being smuggled in through the Cibao International Airport in Santiago in 2013 without the corresponding Ministry of Environment permits. The tusks were confiscated on grounds that the Dominican Republic is a signatory nation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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El Nuevo Diario
24 January 2018
