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Poaching ‘kingpin’ arrested in Congo

09/05/2013 Martin Conservation, Wildlife

Some good news at last.

A major anti-poaching breakthrough has been made in Congo’s Odzala-Kokoua National Park with the arrest of the kingpin of a regional ivory poaching and trafficking ring.

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