Ivory

A Thai customs officer checks confiscated smuggled African elephant tusks
during a press conference at the Port Authority of Thailand in Bangkok.
Thai authorities seized the estimated 200 million baht ($6m US dollars) of 739 pieces
of smuggled ivory tusks, weighing 4,000 kilograms, found loaded inside
a cargo container (Picture: EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT) (via)

An elephant plays with mud on the banks of Yamuna river
 in New Delhi (Picture: AFP PHOTO/MONEY SHARMA) (via)