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By The Independent
The number of endangered rhinos in Tanzania has risen by 1,000 per cent after a government crackdown on organized gangs guilty of industrial-scale poaching, officials claim.
And elephant populations have risen by nearly half in five years, thanks to a blitz on illegal ivory hunters, the president’s office said.
Four years ago the country, which has been described as “ground zero” of the poaching crisis, had just 15 rhinos, but a statement said the figure now was 167. Read more here
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