Dar es Salaam — Tanzania won accolades from international wildlife crime experts on how it handled the case of a 66-year old Chinese businesswoman, Yang Fenglan, nicknamed the "Ivory Queen", who was given a 15-year jail term for smuggling hundreds of elephant tusks, worth $2.5million.
Yang, who was accused of operating one of Africa's biggest ivory-smuggling rings, was convicted in February this year by a Dar es Salaam court for smuggling around 800 pieces of ivory from Tanzania to the Far East between 2000 and 2014. In the case, two other Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring.
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