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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
While limited headway has been made with regard to certain aspects of the
illegal trade in ivory within Tanzania, a number of fundamental commitments,
made at high-profile international meetings, have yet to be implemented.
EIA RECOMMENDS THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF 4. Institute and empower third-party independent
TANZANIA IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS monitoring of checks on outbound freight at all
AS AN IMMEDIATE PRIORITY: Tanzanian and Zanzibari ports
1. Conduct immediate DNA sampling on all seizures of more 5. Prioritise the review and amendment of Zanzibar’s
than 500kg of ivory made within its territory. These include legislation to allow domestic implementation of CITES
seizes in Mikocheni in Dar (1,899kg) and Zanzibar (2,915kg)
from late 2013 EIA RECOMMENDS THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF
CHINA IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS AS
2. Inventory and destroy all Government-held ivory stocks AN IMMEDIATE PRIORITY:
within Tanzania; at the very least, destroy all Government-
held seized ivory stocks. Public promises made by high- 1. Adopt and enforce a full domestic ban on ivory trade,
level officials, most recently in May 2014, to inventory and with immediate effect
put all stocks beyond economic use remain unrealised
3. Create a specialist investigative task force to focus on 2. Investigate and prosecute high-level ivory traffickers
high-level ivory traffickers and corrupt officials who enable operating through organised criminal syndicates
such trafficking. Toward this end, a range of criminal
justice responses are required to be deployed, including: 3. Investigate and prosecute use of wildlife products for
non-financial bribes
• the expansion of evidence-gathering in investigations to
deploy anti-money laundering and anti-corruption 4. Promote sustained and high-impact demand-reduction
legislation against major ivory traffickers campaigns
• proactive intelligence-sharing and enforcement 5. Through its Embassies in Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique
deployment with source, transit and destination and other relevant African countries, and in collaboration
countries such as Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, China with these national governments, develop and deliver
(including Hong Kong), Vietnam, Malaysia and Sri Lanka deterrent messaging against poaching, purchasing and
to demonstrate tangible disruption of criminal activities smuggling of wildlife products for both residents
and Chinese citizens, either visiting or residing in
• the use of international instruments to publicise and these countries
locate fugitive suspects, and to prioritise prosecution of
such offenders, including those highlighted in this report EIA RECOMMENDS THAT TRANSIT AND
DESTINATION COUNTRIES:
• the application of the expertise of all relevant agencies,
including the Tanzanian Police, Tanzania Revenue 1. Expedite full Mutual Legal Assistance to Tanzania in all
Authority including the Customs department and investigation inquiries and legal requests regarding
Tanzania Ports Authority, Tanzania Wildlife Division, ivory trade
Tanzania National Parks Authority, Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority, Financial Intelligence Unit, EIA RECOMMENDS THAT THE DONOR COMMUNITY:
Tanzania Intelligence Security Service, Prevention and
Combating of Corruption Bureau, prosecutors, the 1. Makes anti-corruption and civil oversight measures a
judiciary and other specialised agencies from both core component in all funding
mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar
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