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Tanzanian Man Arrested With Tusks From More Than 100 Elephants
A Tanzanian man has been arrested after authorities found a stash of ivory buried under his house, estimated to come from around 117 elephants, authorities said Thursday.
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Chinese "Ivory Queen" Smuggler Sentenced To 15 Years Jail In Tanzania
A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the "Ivory Queen" was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants, weighing nearly 2 tonnes, to Asia.
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Prosecutors Say This 66-Year-Old Chinese Woman is One of Africa's Most Notorious Smugglers
They call her the Queen of Ivory - a 66-year-old Chinese woman who became famous for her role in Africa's illegal wildlife trade.
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Tanzania Elephants Suffer 'Catastrophic Decline'
Elephant census figures released by Tanzania show a "catastrophic decline" of around 60 percent over the last five years, leading wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC said Tuesday.
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Ivory Smuggling 'Kingpin' Arrested in Tanzania
A suspected organized crime boss alleged to be a leading figure in the illegal ivory trade has been arrested by Interpol agents in Tanzania, officials said today.
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Interpol Announces Special Team to Combat Illegal Ivory Trafficking
International police organisation Interpol announced on Tuesday it would establish a team to target ivory trafficking and more generally, environmental crime, in Africa.
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100,000 Elephants Killed in Africa, Study Finds
Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent's death rate of the world's largest mammals because of an increased demand for ivory in China and other Asian nations, a new study published yesterday found.
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Poaching Could Wipe Out Tanzanian Elephants in Seven Years: Conservationists
Poachers are slaughtering Tanzania's elephants for their ivory at such alarming rates that the population could be completely wiped out in just seven years, conservationists told a conference on Friday.
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Barack Obama to take his first major Africa trip in June
President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary released on Monday bypasses Kenya, an ancestral homeland.
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Ethiopia snatch win to keep World Cup dream alive
Tanzania scored three second-half goals to thrash four-time World Cup qualifiers Morocco 3-1 in Dar es Salaam and climb to within a point of Group C pacesetters Ivory Coast.
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Tanzanian Man Arrested With Tusks From More Than 100 Elephants
A Tanzanian man has been arrested after authorities found a stash of ivory buried under his house, estimated to come from around 117 elephants, authorities said Thursday.
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Chinese "Ivory Queen" Smuggler Sentenced To 15 Years Jail In Tanzania
A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the "Ivory Queen" was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants, weighing nearly 2 tonnes, to Asia.
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Prosecutors Say This 66-Year-Old Chinese Woman is One of Africa's Most Notorious Smugglers
They call her the Queen of Ivory - a 66-year-old Chinese woman who became famous for her role in Africa's illegal wildlife trade.
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Tanzania Elephants Suffer 'Catastrophic Decline'
Elephant census figures released by Tanzania show a "catastrophic decline" of around 60 percent over the last five years, leading wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC said Tuesday.
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Ivory Smuggling 'Kingpin' Arrested in Tanzania
A suspected organized crime boss alleged to be a leading figure in the illegal ivory trade has been arrested by Interpol agents in Tanzania, officials said today.
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Interpol Announces Special Team to Combat Illegal Ivory Trafficking
International police organisation Interpol announced on Tuesday it would establish a team to target ivory trafficking and more generally, environmental crime, in Africa.
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100,000 Elephants Killed in Africa, Study Finds
Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent's death rate of the world's largest mammals because of an increased demand for ivory in China and other Asian nations, a new study published yesterday found.
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Poaching Could Wipe Out Tanzanian Elephants in Seven Years: Conservationists
Poachers are slaughtering Tanzania's elephants for their ivory at such alarming rates that the population could be completely wiped out in just seven years, conservationists told a conference on Friday.
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Barack Obama to take his first major Africa trip in June
President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary released on Monday bypasses Kenya, an ancestral homeland.
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Ethiopia snatch win to keep World Cup dream alive
Tanzania scored three second-half goals to thrash four-time World Cup qualifiers Morocco 3-1 in Dar es Salaam and climb to within a point of Group C pacesetters Ivory Coast.
