Kenya is considering introducing the death penalty for poachers who commit crimes against animals and endangering biodiversity.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himKenya is considering introducing the death penalty for poachers who commit crimes against animals and endangering biodiversity.
It has been talked about for some time, but now Najib Balala, Kenya's minister for tourism and wildlife, expressed his clear desire to increase penalties, speaking of the death penalty.
According to the minister, those who kill elephants, rhinos, lions and other animal species to market tusks, make imaginative infusions or liqueurs or to display them as trophies, must be punished with even stricter laws.
"The wildlife protection law enacted in 2013, which provides for life imprisonment or a $ 200 fine, is currently in force, but has not proved an effective deterrent to curb poaching," Balala explained.
As we know in Kenya there are wonderful animals, but increasingly threatened. They are hunted by unscrupulous poachers who then resell horns and tusks, so much so that in recent years a very strange phenomenon has been occurring, namely the presence of elephants without tusks.
Nearly a third of those living in Africa have been illegally culled by poachers in the past decade to meet the demand for ivory in Asia, where there is still a booming trade in the material, particularly in China.
About 144 elephants were killed between 2007 and 2014 and although the figures released by the ministry have fortunately recorded a decline in killings, there is still no need to rest assured.
For this reason, according to Najib Balala, the only solution to curb poaching would be the death penalty. The announcement clearly aroused controversy, public opinion is divided between in favor and against.
In the meantime, the blitzes of the anti-poaching nuclei continue, but the system does not seem to suffer any more and the exchange market between Africa and China seems more flourishing than ever.
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Dominella Trunfio
