Translated from French by an automated online translation service, so please excuse the roughness. See link for original. Thank you to Anne Dillon for volunteering time to finding these French articles and doing the online translating.
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Monday 2 November, at the N’Djili International Airport, was the arrest of a Chinese caught with two suitcases weighing 31 kg to 32 kg and the other containing a total of 49 ivory tusks.
Monday, November 2, at Nd’jili International Airport, a Chinese woman was caught with two suitcases weighing 31 Kg to 32 Kg and the other containing a total of 49 raw ivory tusks and a few pieces already worked. This subject had Chinese take a regular flight of Ethiopian Airways to Beijing. Arrival at N’djili airport, one is normally presented with luggage check in front of the room. It was then around 11:30. The pot with pink was discovered during the physical search of the two suitcases. Then she was immediately placed under arrest and transported to a place of detention held hitherto secret investigative reasons.
Alerted by the Régie airway services (RVA) posted at the airport Nd’jili of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (LDB) has sent its inspectors on site to make the finding and removing objects from his elephants which are part of the fauna and of wild flora threatened with extinction. In its missions, the financial authority responsible set between customs fraud against the tutte’re narco traffickers, protection of rare species, etc. . . .It is in this context that we must justify the cooperation between the LDB and all services present within the country’s borders.
This entry is not the first of its kind. In July that year following a place DGDA authorities, the general prosecutor at the Gombe Court of Appeal had raided the house of a subject on the Guinean Kabambare Avenue in the town of Barumbu. This operation had led to the seizure of 54 139 kg of ivory spikes. It was below the bed of this outlaw that these rare materials were discovered. Procuratorial officials have caught his shadow, because the thug managed to take to his heels alerted no doubt by his accomplices. After tremendous operation, last October, another spectacular entry was successful in airport facilities Nd’jili by agents of RVA. That time, it involved the seizure of four bags of the same nature and rhino horns. Two Vietnamese subjects were implicated in this fraud. In their suitcases, there were 60 pieces of ivory tusks and two rhino horns weighing a total of 113 kg including 3 bags of 30 kg each and one of 23 Kg.
The complicity dismantle
With the proliferation of these cases of fraud, it remains to conduct thorough investigations to dismantle the accomplices of these outlaws. Those on whom to lay hands are first those poachers who slaughter elephants from which they draw the tusks. Slaughtering the animals through the sale of their tusks is a whole system of partnership. The gaps must be filled today to prevent uncivils to conduct acts harmful to the image of the DRC. For if foreigners allow themselves to hold their possession of prohibited species is come if somewhere there is a letting go in the authorized control by law.
What is CITES?
The Convention on international trade wildlife endangered species (CITES) is a structure set up by the UN to combat the extinction of rare species. In its annexes, contains CITES species to protect. These include including elephants, rhinos, hippos and gorillas. There are species belonging to a “taxonomy” superior or to a designated part of that taxonomy, classified according to their references. There are common names that appear after the scientific names of families to distinguish these species. When a species is listed on the CITES list, all its parts and products are covered unless the species is annotated to indicate that only specific parts and products are covered. This is the case with elephants and ivory spikes. The DRC is in the right track these traffickers who sell the tusks. Among the countries of origin of these protected species, figures prominently in the DRC has several, including mountain gorillas, bonobos etc. The DRC has several parks that UNESCO has inscribed in the World Heritage. It is in these parks where these rare species that also are sources of tourism revenue.