They’re a persistent lot, are they not? Wildlife traffickers, that is. Malaysian authorities have been stepping up their efforts to clamp down on international smuggling networks that use the country as a regional transit point for the trafficking of ivory from Africa. That, though, has clearly not deterred ivory-smuggling syndicates. And so 2017 has started pretty…

Wildlife traffickers have a global reach. We’ve long known this sad fact, of course, but if any more proof of it is needed, here it comes: 1.2 tons of African elephant ivory was recently seized at Juba International Airport in South Sudan. The shipment had originated from Entebbe in Ethiopia…