According to the International Herald Tribune, police in northern Vietnam confiscated almost 7 tons of elephant tusks. Smuggled in from Africa. That was the countries largest ever shipment of tusks.
Around 94 elephant tusks were on this shipment, which means at least 47 elephants were killed for this single load. The laws against elephant poaching are obviously very slack and not doing much to stop things like this from happening. The elephant is the largest land mammal on earth and is slowly becoming more endangered and on the brink of extinction.