Tag: tanzania

This study was commissioned by the “Partnership against Wildlife Crime in Africa and Asia”, a global project implemented by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). The Partnership operates along the entire illegal trade chain in ivory, rhinoceros horn and pangolin from the countries of origin in Africa to the consumers.

On the eve of a meeting of the World Heritage Committee, EIA urges it to strip the world-famous Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania of its status as a World Heritage Site due to the irreversible damage done by construction of a controversial dam.

全面的调查揭露源自中国南部一个无名小镇的犯罪集团如何得以主导偷猎非洲象获得的非法象牙的走私。 水东镇是一群象牙贩运组织的发源地，这些组织已扩展至非洲东部和西部，包括坦桑尼亚和莫桑比克等大象偷猎热点。

An exhaustive investigation reveals how criminal gangs originating from an obscure town in southern China have come to dominate the smuggling of illegal ivory poached from African elephants. Shuidong town is home to a network of ivory trafficking syndicates whose reach extends to East and West Africa

一份报告揭露由中国人主导的犯罪集团和坦桑尼亚贪污官员密谋贩运大量象牙，这个贸易导致坦桑尼亚有一半的大象在过去五年被偷猎。

A report revealing that Chinese-led criminal gangs are conspiring with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory, a trade which has caused half of Tanzania’s elephants to be poached in the past five years