Database of Wildlife Related Law
On 20th day of September, 2009 the accused person was found in unlawful possession of the killed animal known as Pongo (Bushbull) worth Tshs 800,000. Beside that, the accused person was found in unlawful possession of one Mizzle known as Gobore.
This is an appeal originating from Handeni District Court on Economic Case No. 13 of 2013. Appellant appealed the conviction by the Handeni District Court on case No.
The accused Mwajuma was charged of an offence of been in unlawful possession of the Government Trophy which is contrary to section 86 (1) of the Wildlife Conservation Act No. 5 of 2009 read together with Paragraph 14 (d) of the First Schedule to the Economic and Organized Crime Control Act Cap 200 of R.E 2002.
Accused Juma Grayson, Geofrey Semkoko and Salim Kigoda were arrested and charged for being found in unlawful possession of Government trophies contrary to the provision of the law. They were all charged at the Pangani District Court for the same offence.
The accused were jointly found in possession of buffalo meat and fourteen (14) ammunitions without a permit. During their charges they both pleaded not guilty.
From September to November 2014, Pingfan D., Aiming Z. and others purchased the big-headed turtles in Myanmar many times, and hired Ding to transport them from Myanmar to the a farm in a rental house next to the Burmese Temple in Manchang Village, Daluo Village Committee of Daluo Town, China through illegal channels .
From 2014 to 2015, Chen and Yu together with Shen, Jiang, Fushui L. and Mingxing Z. formed a criminal gang to purchase and transport ivory products, of which Lin Fushui L. and Mingxing Z. were responsible for receiving ivory products in Fujian.
In February 2014, Haibo Y. purchased a round pendant made of ivory with a diameter of about 3.5 cm at the Xiaguan Xinqiao Farmers Market in Dali City. In March 2016, Haibo Y. purchased a round pendant made of ivory with a diameter of about 4.2 cm from a WeChat friend "Zangchuan".
During 2010, Xinlin Y. obtained goshawks, otters and other endangered wild animals from a Lao man named "Amou" at the Mengkang port in Jiangcheng County, and then he made them into animal specimens. Xinlin Y. placed the specimens in the store he operated, and affixed a price tag of 2900 yuan to the base of one grass owl specimen.
In February 2018, Heng Z. purchased a snow leopard skin from Han through WeChat and sold it to Yu. Then he asked Han to deliver the snow leopard skin to Xu by courier at the address provided by Yu. After the appraisal, the snow leopard skin involved was worth 400,000 yuan.
