Tuesday, February 19, 2019

"Tanzania jails Chinese 'Ivory Queen' trafficker for 15 years"

"convicted . . . of trafficking 860 tusks between 2000 and 2014"

Related:
In the last three decades, 40 percent of the world’s giraffe population has died. But Niger, the third-poorest country on earth, has remarkably reversed the trend, giving a second chance to Africa’s most threatened giraffe subspecies. They've come back so strong here, in fact, that they're now posing a problem for local farmers.