15.05.2015:
Largest-ever ivory and rhino horn seizure in Mozambique
About a ton and a half of elephant tusks and rhino horns were seized by the Mozambican police in the city of Matola, Maputo province, last Tuesday. The apprehended lot consists on 340 ivory tusks, weighing 1,160kg, and 65 rhino horns, weighing 124kg.
Quelle: africageographic
Im Juni 2014 setzte das UNSECO-Welterbe-Komitee das Selous
Game Reserve auf die Liste der bedrohten World Heritage Sites aufgrund der Auswirkungen der ausufernden Wilderei!
Hier nochmals zwei Artikel, die sich detailliert mit den Zahlen, Daten, Hintergründen und Fakten der Elefantenwilderei und des Elfenbeinschmuggels in Tansania befassen:
Kriminalität, Korruption und die Ausrottung Tansanias Elefanten
POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT
The following people, all connected to the ruling CCM party, have been named in the Tanzanian media
or Parliament in connection with ivory trading:
• in 2008, police searched a truck in southern Tanzania and found a haul of ivory tusks. The vehicle was owned by Usangu
Safaris, a hunting company owned by the family of Nawab Mulla, CCM Chairman for the Mbeya region;46
• in 2013, CCM Secretary-General Abdulrahman Kinana was named in Parliament as being involved in the smuggling of ivory
tusks from Tanzania to Vietnam in 2009, due to his ownership of one of the shipping companies involved in transporting
the consignment. He denied the accusation;47
• in 2013, the then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Khamis Kagasheki, named four CCM Members of Parliament
as being involved in elephant poaching. All came from the Selous area in southern Tanzania. The accused were
Faith Mitambo (MP for Liwale), Miriam Kasembe (MP for Massassi), Mtutura Abdallah Mtutara (MP for Tunduru South)
and Vita Kawawa (MP for Namtumbo).
ZGF Gorilla, März 2014
Schwerpunkt: Elefantenwilderei in Tansania. Die steigende Nachfrage nach Elfenbein auf dem asiatischen Markt hat den illegalen Abschuss von Elefanten in schwindelnde Höhen getrieben!
Grüße
Marina