Still hiding out from authorities , the notorious Joseph Kony and his Lord ’s Resistance Army are now making a living in primal Africa bypoaching and traffickingsome of Africa ’s most iconic coinage .
The Modern report , print by the wildlife trade supervise agencyTRAFFIC , details how the sphere incorporating the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DCR ) , Central African Republic , and Sudan has become rife with the illegal wildlife trade wind , as armed chemical group fund their activities through the massacre and sales event of elephants , chimpanzee , hippopotamuses , and giraffe , among other fauna .
Inevitably , the population of these species have consider a shocking hit . In Garamba National Park alone , which is located in the DCR , the number of elephant crashed from over 20,000 in the sixties to just1,500today . The situation with rhinoceros in the car park is worse , as the poor animals have now been hunted to experimental extinction .
Despite being desire for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court for ordering the abduction of children to become child soldiers and sexual urge striver , the United States and Uganda ended their Leigh Hunt for Kony earlier this year . It is now cogitate that there are only around 100 men leave behind in the Lord ’s Resistance Army , and so they no longer stupefy any meaning scourge to the constancy of Uganda .
Unfortunately , the same can not be order for wildlife .
“ This region is perhaps the most remote and underdeveloped on the continent , ” says co - generator Liz Williamson in astatement . “ The lack of governance and enforcement has rendered local residential area and wildlife an soft target for using by armed group , while illegal wildlife trade fuels continued instability across the landscape . ”
Along with the Lord ’s Resistance Army , there are a number of other militia groups ( such as the Janjaweed ) that are known to poach wildlife across primal Africa . But there are also serious concern about the corruption of state official in the region , which has become an baulk to jurisprudence enforcement . Some of these hoi polloi , such as the DRC State military , are even directly implicate in poaching and trafficking .
The biggest threat to the wildlife in central Africa is come from Sudan and South Sudan , as the fell civic state of war and espouse fight has created much unstableness . Militia are known to conduct cross - border raids into home parks to dissipate elephant for their ivory , even using chopper to do so .
The study foreground how wildlife crime and trafficking is now a major income source for many militia groups and terrorist organizations , including Boko Haram in Niger . guarantee the security and stability of the land in which they operate can therefore have the joint benefit of protect both citizens and wildlife .
