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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 05:20 AM Jul 2016

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.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/kenyan-court-jails-ivory-smuggler-20-years-082113468.html

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Kenyan court jails ivory smuggler for 20 years (Original Post) inanna Jul 2016 OP
Good good good good good. byronius Jul 2016 #1
I heard grinding up distributors and collectors is an even better elixir. But 20 years is, too. JudyM Jul 2016 #2
Excellent suggestion. : ) n/t MBS Jul 2016 #4
Great news! I have no love for poachers at all NWCorona Jul 2016 #3

byronius

(7,369 posts)
1. Good good good good good.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 05:27 AM
Jul 2016

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

(29,122 posts)
2. I heard grinding up distributors and collectors is an even better elixir. But 20 years is, too.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 10:15 AM
Jul 2016


Every bit of justice helps.
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