Live ants being smuggled – Image by Kenya Wildlife Service A year for a thousand ants. Wildlife trafficking is an international problem that national authorities try to tackle as best they can. In Africa, this is an ongoing issue for countries with rich ecological diversity and often substandard law enforcement infrastructure. A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a Chinese man to pay a fine of 1 million shillings ($7,746) and gave him a 12-month jail term for trying to smuggle live ants out of the country. https://t.co/2lMUiGYVkE — Reuters Africa (@ReutersAfrica) April 15, 2026 Yesterday (15), a Chinese national was sentenced to a year in prison for his attempt ‘to smuggle thousands of live queen garden ants out of Kenya’. Chinese national Zhang Kequn was…
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