October 16, 2015
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Crime
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Tanzania took an important step this week to combat the ivory trade and save the African elephant.
The country’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit on Thursday arrested a string of high-level ivory traffickers accused of illegally smuggling elephant tusks from East Africa to East Asia. Among those arrested was Yang Feng Glan, a 66-year-old Chinese native known as the “Queen of Ivory.”
Tanzania has accused Yang of smuggling 706 elephant tusks, weighing about 4,200 pounds and worth about $2.5 million, according to The Citizen, a local newspaper. She faces up to 30 years in prison, the U.S.-based watchdog Elephant Action League reported.
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Yang Feng Glan (center) allegedly trafficked ivory from East Africa to East Asia.
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June 20, 2015
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Breaking News
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And to highlight it, the United States destroyed more than a ton of elephant ivory in New York’s Times Square on Friday.
Lawmakers, wildlife officials, conservationists and bystanders watched the ivory turn into sand-like powder as an industrial rock crusher descended on carvings and raw tusks.
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/20/us/times-square-ivory-crush/index.html
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