Sri Lanka: 359 confiscated elephant tusks destroyed

Sri Lanka destroyed 359 elephant tusks on 26 January, after paying tribute with a Buddhist ceremony for the wild animals who lost their lives for them. John Scanlon, the secretary general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, attended the event with Sri Lanka's Wildlife Minister, Gamini Jayawickrama Perera. Sri Lanka is a signatory to the Washington Convention of 1979, which requires governments to ensure that trade of wild specimens and plants d