Tumaren

Category: Issues | Date: May 29 2009 | By: tumaren

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/090326/elephant-poaching-problem-kenya?page=0,0

http://www.africanconservation.org/content/view/1502/406/

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/530146/-/item/1/-/1moinv/-/index.html

http://www.bushdrums.com/news/index.php?shownews=2129%20-%2031k

http://www.elephanttrust.org/node/541

http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-02/2009-02-27-voa30.cfm?CFID=212460694&CFTOKEN=86145237&jsessionid=8830bb86c5ff2a67b7154242786e02728400

Tags: Chinese Poaching in Kenya, poaching, Poaching Kenya

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