11 face death over conservationist’s murder in Tanzania
AP News
December 2, 2022
A high court in Tanzania on Friday sentenced 11 people to death for the
murder of a conservationist in the East African country more than five
years ago.
Anti-poaching activist Wayne Lotter, a South African national, was shot
dead in August 2017 while riding in a taxi in Tanzania’s commercial capital
of Dar es Salaam.
Those sentenced to death include nine Tanzanians and two citizens of
neighboring Burundi.
Tanzania hasn’t carried out an execution in decades.
Lotter was the director and co-founder of the PALMS Foundation, a
nongovernmental organization which said he had helped to train thousands of
game scouts throughout Tanzania and developed an “intelligence-based
approach” to anti-poaching that had success in countering wildlife
trafficking.
Poachers in Tanzania target various wildlife, including elephants that are
often killed for their tusks.
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