by Adam Cruise | Mar 7, 2024 | News
By Kahawatungu A Nairobi court has frozen ownership of a Mercedes Benz and a block of residential flats built on prime land within Allsops area in Ruaraka belonging to televangelist and businessman Jackson Mbugua Burugu. This is in connection with a case of poaching...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 10, 2023 | News
By Cyrus Ombati, The Star Two suspected poachers were Wednesday arrested and six pieces of elephant tusks recovered in an operation in Maralal, Samburu Police and Kenya Wildlife Service personnel said the suspects were trying to sell the tusks when they were nabbed on...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 20, 2022 | News
By Boris Ngounou, Afrik21 The Gabonese authorities have just arrested an alleged wildlife trafficker. The latter was caught in the act of holding and selling about twenty kilograms of ivory. In Gabon, elephants are protected by the wildlife law in force. A young...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 22, 2021 | News
By Christinah Motlhabane, The Voice A sense of remorse and a convincing mitigation statement have saved a convicted ivory dealer from a lengthy jail term as he got off lightly with a reduced sentence. Poul Garirayi would have been condemned to a mandatory 10-year...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 11, 2020 | News
By Xinhua Security officers in the northwestern Kenya town of Kitale on Thursday arrested a poacher in possession of 14 kilograms of elephant tusks with a market value of 1.4 million shillings (about 14,000 U.S dollars). Local police commander Ayub Gitonga said the...
