Seizure of ivory, horns biggest in recent years

Customs officers in Heilongjiang province announced on Monday that they had cracked a significant case involving the smuggling of prehistoric mammoth tusks, woolly rhinoceros horns and jade.

In the largest haul of such items in recent years, more than 1 metric ton of ivory mammoth tusks and 73 kilograms of woolly rhinoceros horns were discovered, along with 1 ton of jade material.

Heilongjiang's Luobei county is separated from Russia by the Heilong River, known as the Amur in Russia. On Feb 16, six trucks carrying soybeans imported from Russia arrived in Luobei for customs clearance.