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A South African Park authority ranger prepares tools to open the carcass of a poached and mutilated white rhino as a South African Police Services forensic investigators collects evidences on the killing September 12, 2014 at Kruger National Park. As investigators comb a scene of a dehorned rhino in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, its horn is likely to have already been smuggled out of the country to Asia, highlighting the extent of organised poaching cartels threatening the endangered species. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE AFRICA

Direct jail sentences a win in fight against South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade

Collaboration between the various state agencies and specialist prosecutors are needed to break the illicit value chain of wildlife trafficking

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read