Notorious elephant poacher, ‘The Devil’, sentenced to 12 years in jail

Mongabay
Mar 8, 2017, 10:19 pm125 pts
On March 3, a Tanzanian court sentenced one of the country's most wanted elephant poachers to 12 years in prison. Boniface Matthew Mariango, nicknamed "The Devil" by law enforcement officials (or “Shetani” in Kiswahili), stands accused of killing thousands of elephants and of having links to 15 poaching…

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