A Chinese woman was just hit with a 15-year prison term for smuggling illegal ivory in Asia. A court in Tanzania found Yang Feng Glan, who earned the nickname "Ivory Queen," guilty of illegally trading close to 2 tonnes of ivory tusks, which represents over 350 elephants. This is not the first time Glan has been charged with ivory smuggling. Back in the fall of 2015, she was busted for shipping 860 ivory pieces through Asia. The illegal goods were estimated to be worth around $5.6 million....
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/ivory-queen-sentenced-to-15-years-for-illegal-ivory-smuggling
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