South Africa’s #trophy hunt industry has been at the center of #rhino horn trafficking for quite some time. The first Vietnamese “pseudo-hunt” apparently took place in 2003, and in November 2009, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC warned in its report ahead of CITES CoP15 that these bogus hunts had already been taking place on “the same game ranches repeatedly”. Meanwhile, several professional hunters were arrested more than once between 2006 and 2010 for rhino crimes. And in July 2013, an investigative report revealed that South African trophy hunters are operating a rhino horn trafficking ring out of Mozambique. The kingpin is said to be a “safari outfitter with a hunting concession close to Corumana dam” who pays bribes to the local police chief to have charges against his operatives dropped. annamiticus/2013/08/06/south-africas-trophy-hunt-industry-linked-to-rhino-horn-trafficking-again/
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 05:37:54 +0000
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