Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo

Mongabay
Feb 28, 2018, 9:36 am137 pts
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks, and sentenced them to five years in jail as well as fined them the equivalent of $10,000 each, according to a press release from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The men were part of a group of six elephant…

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