US Destroys 6 Tons of Ivory
![U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers carry confiscated ivory to a crusher to be pulverized, at the National Wildlife Property Repository, at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, in Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7F74A1D6-BC9A-4701-A3BB-91636A000CCD_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers carry confiscated ivory to a crusher to be pulverized, at the National Wildlife Property Repository, at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, in Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.
![A front end loader dumps ivory into a giant rock crusher to be pulverized, at the National Wildlife Property Repository, at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, in Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.](https://gdb.voanews.com/A4B2D612-C910-410F-8449-337B6C870003_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A front end loader dumps ivory into a giant rock crusher to be pulverized, at the National Wildlife Property Repository, at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, in Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.
![A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee keeps watch as pulverized confiscated ivory emerges from a rock crusher after being destroyed during an event at the National Wildlife Property Repository, Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.](https://gdb.voanews.com/C51D2450-CB20-4CFC-A232-88C2492ACFFC_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee keeps watch as pulverized confiscated ivory emerges from a rock crusher after being destroyed during an event at the National Wildlife Property Repository, Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.
![Members of the media cover a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service event in which confiscated elephant ivory was destroyed at the National Wildlife Property Repository, Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.](https://gdb.voanews.com/F2428591-FC62-49CD-AECD-670E7046F1C5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the media cover a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service event in which confiscated elephant ivory was destroyed at the National Wildlife Property Repository, Commerce City, Colo., Nov. 14, 2013.