Elephants have been a big part of our world history for a while. They have been around for about 55 million years. In Kenya, one wildlife service has made stricter laws on poaching of elephants. However, the laws only matter as much as the justice system chooses to enforce the laws.
Recently, a poaching crew in Africa was caught and accused of poaching elephants in Arusha, Tanzania, but the court considered the case a “lost case”, and dismissed the case in spite of evidence against the poachers. Because of the potentially corrupt justice system, when the police catch poachers, their hard work goes down the drain because the cases are dropped, and the poachers remain on the loose.
The Arusha case has been reopened and rescheduled for December 22, 2015. The magistrate said “their case is now a case.” Hopefully there will be less poachings and the elephants will continue to exist, and we will have them for years to come.