{"id":298926,"date":"2017-03-04T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298926"},"modified":"2017-03-04T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T14:02:18","slug":"tanzania-jails-notorious-elephant-poacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/tanzania-jails-notorious-elephant-poacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania jails notorious elephant poacher"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tanzania’s most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed “The Devil”, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Boniface Matthew Maliango was responsible for killing thousands of elephants, a conservation organisation said.<\/p>\n
He was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September 2015 after a year-long manhunt.<\/p>\n
His crimes were the focus of a Netflix documentary film, The Ivory Game, produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n
Maliango’s nickname, Shetani, means devil in Swahili.<\/p>\n
The Elephant Action League, which fights wildlife crime, said he ran an ivory trafficking network across five African countries: Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and southern Kenya.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced alongside his brothers, Lucas Mathayo Maliango and Abdallah Ally Chaoga.<\/p>\n
The three were arrested in October 2015 while attempting to smuggle tusks worth more than $850,000 (\u00a3700,000).<\/p>\n
Maliango was accused of supplying ivory to Chinese citizen Yang Fenglan, known as the “Ivory Queen”, who is on trial in Tanzania for trafficking more than 700 elephant tusks worth $2.5m (\u00a31.7m).<\/p>\n
Conservationists have said demand for ivory in China has fuelled poaching.<\/p>\n
Although there is an international ban on buying and selling ivory across borders, it is allowed inside certain countries.<\/p>\n
In December, China announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tanzania’s most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed “The Devil”, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Boniface Matthew Maliango was responsible for killing thousands of elephants, a conservation organisation said. He was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September 2015 after a year-long manhunt. His crimes were the focus of a Netflix documentary film, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[4663,3],"yoast_head":"\n