Africa in biggest ever crackdown on wildlife crime
tonne of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in a four-month operation billed Africa’s largest-ever crackdown on wildlife crime, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said Monday. The crackdown — code-named Operation Baba — also seized cheetah, leopard, serval cat and python skins as well as hippo teeth at several markets, airports and border crossings in Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. (Full Story)