Cold case: Half-hearted prosecution lets ivory traffickers escape in Uganda

Mongabay
Mar 4, 2022, 3:00 pm155 pts
In January 2019, authorities in Uganda intercepted a shipment of nearly 4 tons of elephant ivory and pangolin scales on its way to the capital, Kampala, from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. What’s happened in the three years since then illustrates weaknesses in the country’s enforcement of…

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