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Since September 2016, Jun Y. had successively purchased 5 yellow-sided conures and sun parakeets from others, and placed them in the Cangnan County breeding farm. From March to August 2017, Jun Y. successively sold 8 parrots to others through Xianyu and Taobao websites, with a profit of RMB 5,340.

Meiyun L. illegally purchased and sold endangered wildlife products such as ivory, rhino horns, and helmet hornbill products, whose total value was 231,500 yuan. Since August 2013, Zhenhua Z.

In October 2014, Yang contacted Feng to purchase ivory from "Pingge", and negotiated the transaction by cash on delivery. The batch of ivory was then handed over to Hong Kong by SF Express for delivery to Tianjin.

From 2009 to July 2015, without obtaining the license issued by the wildlife management department, Zhaofeng C., together with Baocai Y. and Wang, illegally purchased rare and endangered wild animals and their products, such as pangolins, monitor lizards and bear paws, from Jianping L., Chunhua L. and others.

On the afternoon of November 12, 2017, Longqing L. discovered one silver chicken while collecting herbs, and then hunted and took it home. The next day, he found three civets on the mountain and hunted them. Later, Longqing L. reached a deal with Xiaping W. by phone. At 17:00 on November 13, Longqing L.

The appellant appealed against both conviction and sentence passed by the District Court of Karatu in economic case No. 4 of 2014. It was alleged during trial that on 30th January, 2013 at Rhotia village within Karatu District the accused was found in unlawful possession of one elephant tusk weighing 12.4 kg valued at Tshs.

The Anti-Poaching Unit received information from their informer that there is a business if elephants tusk about to happen in Arusha-Njiro area. Posing as buyers, the Unit contacted the seller about the possibility of buying the tusks. The sellers fell into a trap and showed the unit the tusks.

The appellant was appealing against the decision of the High Court which ruled that the offence which the respondents were charged with was not an economic crime to be tried before the High Court and thus ordered that the matter to be remitted back to the trial court for necessary amendments of the charge and proceed with trial accordingly.

The appellant was convicted by the District Court of Monduli at Monduli in absentia for unlawful possession of government trophy. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for twenty (20) years.