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Environmental crime is fuelling criminal activity by providing funds to groups like Somali’s al-Shabaab and Sudan’s Janjaweed. A new report by UNEP and Interpol states that environmental crime, which entails illegal exploitation of plants and animals, is worth as much as Sh18 trillion. This is ten times Kenya’s budget of Sh1.8 trillion, which essentially means annual proceeds from environmental crime can run Kenya for a decade!
It is this lucrative nature of environmental crime that keeps it going. Two types of environmental crime particularly rampant in East Africa are illegal ivory trade and illegal charcoal trade. The recent killing of 50-year-old Satao, Kenya’s great tusker, underscored the brutal tragedy of poaching. Not even a legendary elephant is safe from the hands of poachers.
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