Beyond Cecil: The illegal trade in wildlife has real consequences for the world
by Achim Steiner from on (#GZM7)
As the world agonised over the death of Cecil the Lion, poachers slaughtered five elephants in South Africa. It's time we addressed this global epidemic
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As the world agonised over the death of Cecil the lion, poachers in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park - less than 296km (183 miles) from the UN Environment Programme world headquarters in Nairobi - illegally slaughtered five elephants, plundered the carcasses and fled the country with their ivory prize. Compared to Cecil, the slaughter barely registered on the world's radar.
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