Kenyan court jails ivory smuggler for 20 years
Source: Reuters
July 23, 2016
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced a man to 20 years in jail and fined him 20 million shillings ($200,000) for ivory smuggling.
Police accused Feisal Mohamed Ali, from the coastal city of Mombasa, of being behind an international ivory poaching syndicate linked to a 3-tonne haul of elephant tusks seized in Mombasa in June 2014.
Poaching has surged in recent years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand for ivory and horns for use in folk medicines.
Kenya has imposed longer jail terms and bigger fines for wildlife poaching or trafficking, saying it is harming tourism, a major earner of foreign exchange.
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byronius
(7,414 posts)And damn to hell the people that spread the idea that tusks and horns have any medicinal value whatsoever.
I hear that grinding up such practitioners of folk medicine produces a magic elixir that offers one eternal life and unheard-of magical powers.
That's what I heard. It's the best stuff anywhere for anything. Godlike powers, I heard.
Ahem. Just saying. A little fire with fire.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Every bit of justice helps.