Record Kenya fine for ivory smuggler

>A court in Kenya today slapped a record sentence on a Chinese ivory smuggler, the first person to be convicted under tough new laws designed to stem a surge in poaching.

Tanzania jails ivory smuggler for 20 years
News24
Faced with increased activity by poachers and traffickers, who are decimating the African elephant population to the point of potentially causing its extinction in the long run, the destruction of seized ivory by security officials have increased. (T. Multimedia ...
Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 yearsAFP

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Voice of America
Interpol Nabs Accused Ivory Smuggler
Voice of America
The international police agency Interpol says it has arrested an alleged ivory trafficker who had been on the run for months. The head of Interpol, Vitalis Okumu, said Tuesday that officers apprehended Feisal Ali a day earlier at a rental home in Dar es Salaam, ...
Interpol Has Arrested One of Its Most Wanted Environmental FugitivesVICE News
Tanzania arrests Kenyan leading ivory traffickerPress TV
Police arrest 'most wanted'...

The Guardian
Interpol: Kenyan Suspected Ivory Smuggler Arrested
ABC News
Kenyan police have arrested an alleged ivory trafficker, who had been on the run for months, the international police agency said Tuesday. Feisal Ali was arrested at a rental house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday evening, said the head of Interpol in ...
Interpol: man wanted for ivory smuggling caught in TanzaniaChron.com

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U.S. News & World Report
Tanzania says its most infamous ivory smuggler is this elderly Chinese ...
Quartz
Tanzanian authorities claim they have arrested a kingpin of the illegal ivory trade—an elderly Chinese woman that has been living in Dar es Salaam since the 1970s, working as a translator, restaurant owner, and pepper farm owner. Tanzania's National ...
Tanzania: Wildlife activists praise arrest of Chinese womanBristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
The “Queen of Ivory” arrested in...

BBC News
Police arrest 'most wanted' ivory smuggler in Tanzania
BBC News
A Kenyan businessman suspected of being behind an international ivory smuggling ring has been arrested in Tanzania. Police said that Feisal Mohamed Ali was linked to a three tonne haul of elephant tusks seized in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Mr Ali had ...
Interpol Officials Arrest Kenyan Poaching Suspect in TanzaniaBusinessweek
Interpol: Kenyan suspected ivory smuggler arrestedBloomington Pantagraph

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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 ...

Salon
Nairobi to charge suspected Chinese ivory smuggler
Africa Science News Service
A suspected Chinese ivory smuggler is expected to be arraigned in a Makadara Law Courts, Nairobi, Kenya this morning. Tang Yong Jian, 40, was arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while on transit from Napula, Mozambique to ...
40-year-old Chinese man arrested at JKIA with ivory disguised as cupsThe Standard Digital News
Conservationists to Hong Kong: “Ivory is not art”Salon
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Headlines & Global News
Interpol's 'Most Wanted' Ivory Smuggler Finally Arrested In Tanzania
Headlines & Global News
Interpol- the international police agency- said it arrested a fugitive suspected of running an international ivory-smuggling ring. (Photo : Reuters). A Kenyan man said to be a notorious smuggler was finally arrested in Tanzania after months on the run, Interpol ...
Ivory kingpin caught after months on runThe Times (subscription)
Interpol Has Arrested One of Its Most Wanted...