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Are The Chinese Fueling Kenya’s Poaching Problem?

When I first heard suggestions that Chinese Road and infrastructure workers were behind a great deal of the recent wave of ivory and bush meat poaching in the country i was skeptical.  It sounded like a simple racist jab at some hard working people.  And yet the story is everywhere. I even heard a story about KWS officers who found a whole crocodile in a Chinese Road worker freezer last week.  This story like many could not be verified but what can verified is beginning to leak slowly to the press.  Here is a short list of stories i picked up from a simple google search:
 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/kenya…
 http://www.africanconservation.org/conte…
 http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2…
 http://www.bushdrums.com/news/index.php?…
 http://www.elephanttrust.org/node/541
 http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2…