'Illegal ivory trade' in Burma Town

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%More than 3,300 pieces of ivory and almost 50 elephant tusks have been discovered for sale on the Burmese border with China.

The discovery, made by an undercover team from wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic and Oxford Brookes University, comes just a week after China destroyed a stockpile of illegal ivory to mark its commitment to ending the illicit trade.