Chinese Presidential Entourage Used Tanzania Trip to Buy Illegal Ivory, Says ...

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Chinese Presidential Entourage Used Tanzania Trip to Buy Illegal Ivory, Says ...
Newsweek
Ivory tusks are displayed after the official start of the destruction of confiscated ivory in Hong Kong May 15, 2014. Tyrone Siu/Reuters. Tweet. AA. Filed Under: World, China, Ivory Trade, Tanzania, Elephants, Africa, Xi Jinping. Chinese government officials ...
Elephant ivory price 'spiked as China VIPs snapped up thousands of kilos'The Guardian
Chinese officials accused of smuggling ivory during...

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Slate Magazine (Blog)

06 Nov

Chinese Delegation Reportedly Bought So Much Illegal Ivory on Africa Trip the ...

Slate Magazine (blog)
Chinese Delegation Reportedly Bought So Much Illegal Ivory on Africa Trip the ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
China has long been accused of fueling the illegal ivory trade in Africa. A new report out this week from London-based NGO Environmental Investigation Agency says the illicit trade implicates even the highest levels of the Chinese government.
Corruption in Tanzania facilitates ivory tradeMongabay.com
Report links Chinese to elephant poaching in TanzaniaToronto Star
Chinese...

 

10 years ago

Sydney Morning Herald

06 Nov

Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to Tanzania used to smuggle illegal ivory ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to Tanzania used to smuggle illegal ivory ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Dar Es Salaam: Tanzania is studying a report alleging that Chinese officials bought large amounts of illegal ivory during a visit by President Xi Jinping last year and smuggled it out in diplomatic bags aboard his plane, a Tanzanian government official said on ...
Tanzania probes alleged ivory smuggling during Chinese state visitReuters Canada
Illicit Trade in Ivory...

 

10 years ago

CTV News

06 Nov

Chinese officials smuggled ivory out of Africa on state trip: report

CTV News
Chinese officials smuggled ivory out of Africa on state trip: report
CTV News
BEIJING -- Chinese officials and businesspeople used a state trip by President Xi Jinping and other high-level visits to smuggle ivory out of Tanzania, an environmental watchdog said Thursday, casting doubt over Beijing's efforts to end the illegal trade that ...
Chinese Accused of Smuggling Tanzania Ivory in State VisitBloomberg
Chinese officials smuggled ivory out of Africa: reportNew York Daily News
Report:...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Nov

Chinese officials ‘buying illegal African ivory’

Chinese diplomatic and military staff went on buying sprees for illegal ivory while on official visits to East Africa, sending prices soaring, an environmental activist group said yesterday.

 

10 years ago

ABC Online

06 Nov

Chinese officials went on illegal ivory buying sprees during president Xi ...

ABC Online
Chinese officials went on illegal ivory buying sprees during president Xi ...
ABC Online
Chinese diplomatic and military staff went on buying sprees for illegal ivory while on official visits to Tanzania, sending prices soaring, an environmental activist group says. Tens of thousands of elephants are estimated to be slaughtered in Africa each year to ...
Chinese officials accused of smuggling African ivory on official visitsLos Angeles Times
Tanzania probes alleged ivory smuggling...

 

9 years ago

Zegabi

13 Oct

Chinese 'Ivory Queen' to Fight Ivory Smuggling Charges in Tanzania

Zegabi
Chinese 'Ivory Queen' to Fight Ivory Smuggling Charges in Tanzania
Zegabi
8979794_G A 66-year-old Chinese woman who was arrested by a specialized wildlife task force in Tanzania last week will fight charges that she masterminded a multinational crime syndicate involved in smuggling over 700 tusks to Asia. On Monday, Yang ...
Chinese 'Ivory Queen' innocent, will fight Tanzanian charges- lawyerReuters Africa
Chinese 'Queen of Ivory' Arrested in TanzaniaEnvironment News Service
Wildlife...

 

9 years ago

Voice Of America

13 Oct

Chinese Ivory Trafficker Arrested in Tanzania

Voice of America
Chinese Ivory Trafficker Arrested in Tanzania
Voice of America
October 13, 2015 2:19 PM. Tanzanian officials last week announced the arrest of a Chinese businesswoman they described as the “most important ivory trafficker ever arrested in the country.” The woman, who is being called the “Queen of Ivory,” is ...
'Queen Of Ivory' Yang Feng Lan: Tanzania Arrests East African Region's MostYou Don't Know Football
Tanzania police charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivoryNYSE...

 

9 years ago

Environment News Service

13 Oct

Chinese 'Queen of Ivory' Arrested in Tanzania

Environment News Service
Chinese 'Queen of Ivory' Arrested in Tanzania
Environment News Service
DAR es SALAAM, Tanzania, October 12, 2015 (ENS) – Tanzanian authorities have arrested one of the country's most notorious alleged ivory traffickers, the so-called “Queen of Ivory.” Yang Feng Glan, 66, is charged with smuggling and trafficking 706 ...
A notorious Chinese Ivory trafficker is caught by Tanzanian authoritiesWLRN
Number 1 enemy of elephants known as the Queen of Ivory arrested in...

 

11 years ago

AFP

19 Mar

Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years

Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years
AFP
Dar es Salaam — A court in Tanzania jailed on Wednesday a Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years amid a crackdown to stem a surge in poaching. Yu Bo, 45, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of 81 elephant tusks and the skins of two pangolins, which are ...

 

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