‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime

Mongabay
Sep 19, 2026, 5:22 pm115 ptsTrending
The man in the Zambian prison recalled how he ended up there. He’d been approached by someone who had an uncle in the capital, Lusaka, who was willing to buy ivory and pangolin scales. He gave the man a phone and a number to reach him. “He promised that the money I would get would enable me to build a house…

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