Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa’s biggest port, has quietly emerged as the world’s major transit point for ivory. In the five years leading up to June 2014, international authorities seized about 170 tons of ivory trafficked by transnational organized crime networks through Africa’s ports. That represents as many as 230,000 elephants: more than half of Africa’s current population, according to a report called Out of Africa by Born Free USA and C4ADS.
Link: The Wall Street Journal