A high court in Tanzania on Friday sentenced 11 people to death for the murder of a well-known conservationist in the East African country more than five years ago.
A picture taken on January 14, 2017, shows South African conservationist Wayne Lotter taking part in the Walk for Elephants event endorsed by the Chinese embassy, in Dar es Salaam. Those sentenced to death include nine Tanzanians and two citizens of neighboring Burundi. Tanzania hasn't carried out an execution in decades.
Poachers in Tanzania target various wildlife, including elephants that are often killed for their tusks., a nongovernmental organization which said he had helped to train thousands of game scouts throughout Tanzania and developed an"intelligence-based approach" to anti-poaching that had success in countering wildlife trafficking.that her colleague had received multiple death threats over his work with PAMS before being killed.
"If we really want to defeat this illegal wildlife trafficking, we have to go for the blood supply; we have to stop the money at the heart of this crime," Clark told CBS News. saying she and her colleagues were relieved the trial was over. "Wayne's murder and the sentencing of the eleven accused should serve as a reminder to everyone that poaching and wildlife crime is devastating to all of us," she said."It destroys Tanzania's extraordinary natural heritage and damages families and communities. Wildlife crime doesn't pay."
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