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by Tex Dworkin June 30, 2015 4:00 pm
It brought me immense pleasure to tell you about the apprehension of the first two fugitives from Interpols Most Wanted Environmental List which first launched in October 2014.
Similar arrests have taken place since, including the arrest of Nepals top wildlife criminal Rajkumar Praja who was caught in Malaysia. Hes the ringleader of a rhino poaching network in Nepal and was the subject of a global INTERPOL environmental fugitive operation. Information exchanged between the INTERPOL National Central Bureaus in Nepal and Malaysia led to his arrest by the Royal Malaysian Police in January 2015, and now Praja is due to serve a 15-year sentence for rhino poaching and trading internationally in rhino horns.
Continuing with the good news for those who appreciate justice for wildlife criminals, another rhino poacher has been nabbed, and this time authorities apprehended the criminal before the crime was committed.
South African National Parks announced earlier this week that Mozambican National Elliot Manzini was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition with the intention to kill rhino, and illegally entering Kruger National Park (KNP) with the intention to poach rhino.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/would-be-rhino-poacher-caught-before-he-had-a-chance-to-kill.html#ixzz3fDwXW47w
FULL story at link.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Yes, poaching is a problem but until countries like China ban rhino horns from being imported and used in folk medicine, rhinos will continue to be killed.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)As of April, 2014, China has had a ban on consumption, purchasing or selling of rhinoceros horns in place.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)calikid
(584 posts)I really need these feel good stories, to balance out all the ugliness in the world I read about here.
pansypoo53219
(20,996 posts)calimary
(81,467 posts)I LOVE stories like these!
Number9Dream
(1,562 posts)Would like to see even stiffer sentences unless they inform on poaching organizations.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)rhino horn.
That gets around, poaching will decline.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)gotta be a food coloring to make the horn icky ( and ways to keep the rangers safe while they do that)
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)rather impact poacher behavior and health.
I'm thinking a couple of international news stories about rhino horn that was found abandoned with most of the poacher's body, except for the penis, because it is becoming known that the penis of the big brave poacher is much more arousing than mere rhino.
We might actually save the last of them. I think we are down to one white rhino now. And the poachers have given up their humanity, as far as I am concerned. Like any bully.