Grace Mugabe investigated for ivory and rhino horn poaching

Investigations into illicit and illegal activities led and directed by the former first lady of the country Grace Mugabe have intensified.

Investigations into Mrs Mugabe now include ivory and rhino horn poaching.

Documents are said to implicate her and some close associates, at least one of whom is Chinese, in involvment in a poaching network responsible for the cyanide poisoning of hundreds of elephants in Zimbabwe.

Tusks are also said to have disappeared from ivory stockpiles in the country.

The new government in Zimbabwe has taken a much more committed approach to conservation and vowed to arrest any persons involved in poaching ‘regardless of who they are, or who they know’.


I hope the  truth comes out, and we don't end up with a cover up

Hong Kong Government advisor on protection of endangered species in possession of illegal ivory

A Hong Kong ivory trader fined this week for illegal possession of ivory resigned on Wednesday from a government advisory panel to protect endangered species, a potentially embarrassing blow for a city fighting to stamp out smuggling of ivory.

Hong Kong has the largest retail market for ivory, which it has traded for more than 150 years. The territory is a prime transit and consumption hub, with more than 90 percent of consumers from mainland China.

Earlier on Wednesday Reuters reported that government records showed Lau Sai-yuan was a member of the Endangered Species Advisory Committee of Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD).