Cameroonian authorities setting ablaze some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and more than 1,753 ivory products seized from traffickers April 19, 2016. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
The report, Crime, Conservation and Criminal Networks in Illicit Rhino Horn Trade by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, lists a number of loopholes which traffickers were using to dodge security checks at ports. And, it appears, ‘diplomatic bags’ which were legally immune from scrutiny were the mode of choice.
