In Nairobi President Kenyatta has assented to the new Wildlife
Conservation and Management Bill, making it the law of the land with
immediate effect.
Under the new law, poachers, their financiers and the traders will
face substantially higher fines, confiscation of property and long
prison terms. Most significantly, those arrested at airports, in
possession of ivory or other prohibited wildlife items, will face fines
of not less than a million Kenya Shillings and prison terms of not less
than five years.
Many smugglers have been caught over the past years at Nairobi’s Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport, the majority of them Chinese citizens.
Total No of Rhinos slaughtered in South Africa to End of December 2021 = 451 Official figures. Note: the number of wild rhinos in Kruger has declined from 3,500 to 2,800 in one year. Read my blog below for Headlines from around the World concerning the Global Catastrophe that is causing the biggest mass extinction since the Permian Period, and News of the fight to stop the slaughter of the Planet's Wildlife before it is too late.
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