{"id":13652,"date":"2014-04-04T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/61-elephant-tusks-seized-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2014-04-04T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:55:46","slug":"61-elephant-tusks-seized-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/61-elephant-tusks-seized-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"61 Elephant Tusks Seized in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Tanzania’s anti-poaching squad in Manyoni District has seized a total of 61 elephant tusks during the past seven days.}}<\/p>\n

The head of the special task force, Mr. Robert Mande, said the seizure was a result of a systematic manhunt by the team for a period of almost two months. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe embarked on a strategy to dismantle the poaching network in this area on February 1, 2014. Through the cooperation with the Anti-poaching Zonal Office for Manyoni, we managed to capture five suspects on Monday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The suspects, including a village executive officer, were found in possession of 53 elephant tusks, weighing 169.7Kgs.<\/p>\n

Mande said, \u201cTo get the tusks, the suspects might have killed some 26 elephants.”<\/p>\n

Tanzania government, says it will employ some 450 new game rangers in the coming few days to boost the war on poaching.<\/p>\n

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{Tanzania’s Natural Resources and Tourism minister Lazaro Nyalandu inspects seized elephant tusks in Manyoni on Wednesday. Five people were arrested in connection with the haul.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{Tanzania’s anti-poaching squad in Manyoni District has seized a total of 61 elephant tusks during the past seven days.}} The head of the special task force, Mr. Robert Mande, said the seizure was a result of a systematic manhunt by the team for a period of almost two months. \u201cWe embarked on a strategy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[99],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051436,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13652.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13652.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13652.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13652.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13652.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13652.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13652"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13652"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}