A prosecution in New York has ended in a plea bargain by Liberian Moazu Kromah, alleged to be the ringleader of one of the most active wildlife-trafficking syndicates in Africa. Kromah is linked to at least 15 major trafficking cases in Kenya involving more than 30 tonnes of ivory.
Images of a container-load of pangolin scales or ivory or, occasionally, the picture of a rather glum-looking fellow in handcuffs holding up a tiger skin are compelling to Western audiences, but these represent only a disruption, not an end to the stripping down of the world’s biodiversity