Artificial Elephant Tusks Are Being Used To Help Track The Illegal Ivory Trade

Huffington Post
Artificial Elephant Tusks Are Being Used To Help Track The Illegal Ivory Trade
Huffington Post
The replicas are equipped with GPS tracking technology to allow law enforcement to follow their path. Headshot of Joseph Erbentraut. Joseph Erbentraut Chicago Editor, The Huffington Post. Posted: 09/04/2015 02:07 PM EDT.
Video: Ivory Trade and Slave Trade Linked Throughout HistoryNational Geographic
Ivory smugglers exposed using fake elephant tusks with GPS trackers...

Huffington Post

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10 years ago

Fort Mills Times

11 Dec

Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, and Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger ...

Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, and Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger ...
Fort Mills Times
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today appealed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Dana J. Hyde, the Chair and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), to defer approval of additional aid funding of up to $450 ...
Elephant Poaching Epidemic Prompts Objections by The Environmental ...PR Newswire (press release)
Tanzanian police seize more than 200 elephant tusk...

 

9 years ago

Daily News

02 Sep

Three charged for organised crime and illegal possession of elephant tusks

Three charged for organised crime and illegal possession of elephant tusks
Daily News
THREE people appeared before Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam charged for organised crime and being found with elephant tusks valued at 126m/-, property of the government, without any permit. They are Suleiman Mohamed (36), ...

 

9 years ago

The Guardian

08 Oct

Chinese 'ivory queen' charged with smuggling 706 elephant tusks

The Guardian
Chinese 'ivory queen' charged with smuggling 706 elephant tusks
The Guardian
Ivory is prized for ornamental use in China. The Elephant Action League described Yang Feng Glan as 'the most important ivory trafficker ever arrested' in Tanzania. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images. by David Smith. Thursday 8 October 2015 ...
Prosecutors say this 66-year-old Chinese woman is one of Africa's most ...Washington Post
Tanzania police charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivoryWBTW -...

 

9 years ago

Biotechin.Asia

04 Sep

Ivory smugglers exposed using fake elephant tusks with GPS trackers inside!

Biotechin.Asia
Ivory smugglers exposed using fake elephant tusks with GPS trackers inside!
Biotechin.Asia
Confiscated elephant tusks, with square holes where a part of the tusk were taken for DNA sampling, are seen at the grounds of the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) headquarters at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife in Manila on June 20, 2013.
Video: Ivory Trade and Slave Trade Linked Throughout HistoryNational Geographic

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9 years ago

Christian Science Monitor

12 Oct

Will arrest of the 'Queen of Ivory' dent illegal ivory trade?

Christian Science Monitor
Will arrest of the 'Queen of Ivory' dent illegal ivory trade?
Christian Science Monitor
A Chinese businesswoman who has lived in Africa for decades was arrested for smuggling millions of dollars worth of poached elephant tusks. By Lonnie Shekhtman, Staff October 11, 2015. Save for later Saved. close. In this photo taken on Wednesday, ...
Wildlife activists praise arrest of Chinese womanIPPmedia
In praise of anti-poaching task forceDaily News | The National Newspaper...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jan

Probe on Hassanoo’s illegal ivory trade case incomplete

Investigation in an illegal ivory trade case facing Coast Regional Football Association (corefa) chairman Hassan Othman ‘Hassanoo’ and five others is not complete, the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday.

 

9 years ago

Hong Kong Free Press

30 Oct

Another blow to illegal ivory trade as Tanzania arrests notorious trafficker ...

Hong Kong Free Press
Another blow to illegal ivory trade as Tanzania arrests notorious trafficker ...
Hong Kong Free Press
A notorious elephant poacher and ivory trafficker has been arrested by Tanzanian law enforcement authorities after a manhunt that lasted for over one year, according to NGO Elephant Action League. Boniface Matthew Mariango, 45, nicknamed “The Devil” or ...

 

11 years ago

GPL

11 Feb

ITV News goes undercover to expose Tanzania's illegal ivory trade

 

10 years ago

GlobalPost

18 Aug

Senior policeman arrested with elephant tusks in northwest Kenya

Coastweek
Senior policeman arrested with elephant tusks in northwest Kenya
GlobalPost
NAROK, Kenya, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Police said on Monday a senior Kenyan police officer and another suspect were arrested with two elephant's tusks worth 71,000 U.S. dollars in Narok, about 100 km southwest of the country's capital Nairobi.
Police officer among two arrested with Sh6.2 million elephant tusks in NarokThe Star
Millions of wildebeest cross Mara river during August migrationCoastweek

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