Nine and a half tons. That’s how much ivory Malaysia has just destroyed. And that’s a good thing too, for all of that ivory had been seized over the years from wildlife traffickers. Malaysian officials hope that by publicly destroying the massive haul of African elephant tusks in an industrial…

They are relentless. Wildlife traffickers, that is. They keep trying to smuggle endangered species out of Malaysia and they keep trying to smuggle them in too so as to sell them on the black market. A case in point: Two Malaysian men, bound for Kuala Lumpur, were arrested at Jakarta’s…