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...

Fort Mills Times

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

Huffington Post

04 Sep

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...

 

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...

 

9 years ago

IPPmedia

22 Dec

Govt to create institutional apparatus to curb illegal drug trade, corruption

Govt to create institutional apparatus to curb illegal drug trade, corruption
IPPmedia
The government is posed with immediate effect to make institutional reforms in the Police Force as it intensifies the war against illegal drug trade and corruption in the country. Government leaders for several times had continued waging the ...
State to deal with police station attackersDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)

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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

 

11 years ago

Bayoubuzz

11 Feb

What fuels elephant slaughter?

IPPmedia
What fuels elephant slaughter?
Bayoubuzz
DAR AS SALAAM, Tanzania — It is a bloody industry that is emptying the wilderness of a mighty beast — the noble elephant. But for the traders and the poachers behind the slaughter it is, simply, business. The cost of Africa's poaching crisis is huge — but so ...
Minister for Natural Resources and Wildlife, Lazaro NyalanduIPPmedia
Sweeney asks for ban on ivory salesLegislative Gazette

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Feb

Dar keen on global action against elephant slaughter

Tanzania will not apply to sell its stock of elephant tusks, a position which is meant to discourage trade that has fuelled poaching in the country.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jul

Ivory price surge fuels slaughter of elephants

>The price of ivory taken from elephants slaughtered in Tanzania and other African countries for their tusks has tripled in the past four years in China, the world’s biggest market, according to conservationists.

 

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