Pressure is mounting against multi-faceted smugglers but the legal case, though strong, is enormously complexLate on 6 June 2014 Kenyan police, acting on a tip-off, raided a used car lot in Mombasa's industrial area. Inside Fuji Motors East Africa Ltd, in one of the lock-ups, they found two tonnes of ivory. Days earlier a white Mitsubishi truck, its paperwork claiming "household equipment" but in fact carrying more than 300 elephant tusks secreted beneath a tarpaulin, had pulled into the yard on Mombasa Island's dirty northern fringe, far from the tourist hotels and beaches for which the city is famous. Continue reading...
'They're like the mafia': the super gangs behind Africa's poaching crisis
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Zdroj: The Guardian