VOA Special Report
Payoffs and Poverty in Tanzania’s Poaching War
VOA treks through Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve to show how corruption allows criminal poaching syndicates to thrive. A poaching middleman reveals ivory is easily smuggled out of the country. Conservationists support development projects in local communities where poorly-equipped volunteer rangers are left to police the reserves, sometimes using children as lookouts.
About the project
In this project, journalists from VOA’s Africa Division and Mandarin Service examine poaching in Africa, the multinational criminal syndicates behind it, and the efforts to reduce demand for tusks and horns in Asian countries where they are sold.
