How to trap elephant poachers with their own technology
Chinese national Yang Feng Glan leaving a Tanzania court after she was charges with smuggling ivory worth $2.51 million in October 2015. PHOTO | FILE
One day last October, agents from a crack Tanzanian crime unit raced past Dar es Salaam's Palm Beach Hotel in pursuit of the suspected leader of a global elephant poaching ring.
The chase was the result of new breakthroughs in Tanzania's fight against an increasingly rapacious poaching trade, which has felled 60 per cent of the country's elephant population in the past five years.
