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WildlifeDirect launches a new comprehensive report on Kenya’s legal response to wildlife, forest and fisheries crimes

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WildlifeDirect launches a new comprehensive report on Kenya’s legal response to wildlife, forest and fisheries crimes

Victoria Wangui2021-03-15T06:00:57+00:00March 3rd, 2021|Categories: featured, press resleases|Tags: Africa, Cedar Hill Foundation, Conservation, Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Elephant Crisis Fund, Eyes In The Courtroom, fisheries, Forestry, human-wildlife conflict, Illegal Wildlife Crime, illegal wildlife trade, JTI, Judicial Training Institute, Justice For Wildlife, Kemya Wildlife Service, Legal Program, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Poaching, Save The Elephants, the Straus Foundation, the Wildlife Conservation Network, Whitley Segre Foundation, Wildlife, wildlife crime, Wildlife in Kenya, Wildlife Management, wildlife trafficking, Wildlife Warriors, WildlifeDirect|

WildlifeDirect is pleased to release the fourth report on the outcomes of wildlife, forest, and fisheries crime cases in Kenya. This report presents data collected from 4,142 cases. We have been monitoring wildlife crime cases in Kenyan courts since 2013 as a response to the crisis of poaching of elephants and other endangered wildlife.

KWS arrests three people found in possession of a live pangolin

Victoria Wangui2020-09-28T03:40:38+00:00September 9th, 2020|Categories: press resleases|Tags: CITES, Eyes In The Courtroom, illegal wildlife trade, Kenya Wildlife Service, Mombasa, Pangolin, Pangolin trade, wildlife crime, World Wildlife Crime report 2020|

Three people have been arrested and charged with being in possession of a live pangolin. The three Kenyans, all male, were arrested by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers on 2nd September 2020 in Likoni area and charged on 3rd September 2020, at the Chief Magistrates Court in Mombasa.