Ivory Queen

We all know about the ivory problem in Africa, the killings of Elephants for there tusks in order to make different kinds of material objects. The poaching of elephants has been a big problem, but in Tanzania there was an arrest and conviction made of a trafficker; going by the name the "Ivory Queen" was sentenced to 15 years for smuggling over 350 elephant tusks to Asia -- described as a "major victory against poaching". Dating back to around 2015, Yang Fen Glan has been in the trafficking business where it was reported that she smuggled $3.5 million worth of ivory. The demand for ivory in asian countries has since created a rise in poaching all across Africa decreasing the number of elephants from 110,000 to a mere 40,000 between the years of 2009-2014. She has not been the only arrest and conviction of a Chinese person on those counts as there were other men sentenced 35 years in prison and another for 20 for trafficking rhino horns.
Our elephant numbers are drastically down, and without the demand of ivory seized only time will tell how much longer there will be elephants to roam the earth.

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