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Ivory Smuggling Rings Use Briefcase Companies to Escape Police Dragnets
Source: Mobile.nation.co.ke
By Mayoyo
An international poaching and ivory smuggling syndicate in the region is using shell import and export firms, and clearing and forwarding companies in Kenya and Uganda to facilitate their illicit trade, investigations indicate.
A search at the registrar of companies in Uganda has revealed that Gisenya Freight Limited, Comos Freightnal Limited, which have been linked to more than 10 tonnes of ivory intercepted at the Port of Mombasa, do not exist in the database of the Uganda Registration Service Bureau.
And the files of Uwezo Enterprises Ltd and Three Ways Freighters Ltd, both of Mombasa, are also not in the records of Kenya's Registrar of Companies— explaining why no arrests have been made in connection with the multi-million ivory seized four months ago.
Questions are now being raised as to how the huge ivory consignments, which originated from Uganda, were cleared by the country's revenue authority without verification of the cargo and the firms involved.
Decorative ivory stolen from State House in Mombasa was found in the consignment that originated from Uganda— raising fears that influential personalities in Kenya and Uganda are behind the illegal business.
In Kenya, two influential Coast businessmen, a central Kenya MP and a Rift Valley governor have been linked to the runaway poaching and ivory smuggling.
Police officers, Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Revenue Authority officials conversant with investigations into the matter say names of the three have featured in the banned trade. More....
ICCWC Delivers Specialized Training for Wildlife Law Enforcement Officers. Increased Collaboration between African and Asian Countries Encouraged.
Source: CITES.org
The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) delivered a two-day cutting-edge training workshop to wildlife law enforcement officials from 21 countries in Nairobi, Kenya, from 30 to 31 October 2013.
The training strengthened the skills of law enforcement officers from across Africa and Asia, to combat transnational organized wildlife crime more effectively through the use of a broad range of innovative and specialized investigation techniques. It further exposed these officers to hands on training on the use of tools and services available to them through ICCWC partner agencies and highlighted the importance of increased international collaboration,to facilitate multidisciplinary investigations and law enforcement responsesacross range, transit and destination States, targeting the sophisticated criminal networks behind transnational organized wildlife crime,to bring the kingpins behind these networks to justice'.
Mr John Scanlon, Secretary-General of CITES, stated that 'the purpose of ICCWC is to bring coordinated support to national wildlife law enforcement agencies and to the sub-regional and regional networks that, on a daily basis, work to counter the illegal wildlife trade'. He further emphasized that 'it is crucial that all available tools such as the secure communication channels and databases provided by INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization, and specialized investigation techniques, such as controlled deliveries, anti-money laundering and asset recovery tools and risk profiling, are utilized to the full extent possible, in the fight against illegal wildlife trade'.
Mr. Bonaventure Ebayi, Director of the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) said: 'I welcome the training on intelligence gathering, management and analysis, as well as on questioning techniques, operational best practices and operational planning provided to participants. This newly acquired knowledge will empower wildlife law enforcement officers to combat the growing global challenge posed by wildlife crime more effectively'. He implored participants to among other things share knowledge and experiences during the training and to share it with their counterparts at national level as they return to their respective countries. More....
Perched on a Knife-Edge: Lake Victoria's Ailing Fisheries
Source: Pambazuka.org
By Michael Markovina, Rhett Bennett
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (or referred to as IUU fishing) is globally playing a significant role in the devastation of fish stocks in both marine and inland waters. Current conservative estimates suggest a global financial loss of between US$ 10 billion and US$ 23 billion annually (Agnew and Pitcher 2008). IUU fishing activity undermines fisheries management and serves to erode the benefits to the people whose livelihoods, income generation and food security depend on the biological integrity and productivity of their associated waters. IUU is incentive driven, governed by simple economic principles of supply, demand and value – the more valuable and lucrative the trade (in this case fisheries resources) the more likely participants will engage in illicit activities to acquire that resource. There is no part of the world's oceans or freshwater bodies today that is safe from overexploitation of its resources. Advances in technology have provided the methods, a global economy has provided the means, human population increase has provided the demand, poor fisheries management and control mechanisms have provided the loop holes, and fisheries resources (especially those of developing nations) represent the valued – albeit declining – commodity. Although more often associated with marine fisheries, IUU fishing and its associated trade are currently threatening the biological, social, financial and cultural integrity of the fisheries of Lake Victoria, arguably Africa's largest and most important inland water body.
African freshwater fisheries are characterized by exotic species introductions, overexploitation of resources, poor management and a lack of reliable, non-conflicting data. The reality of these characteristics, particularly the lack of suitable data, was somewhat brought to the fore when piecing together this article. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, states and all those engaged in fisheries management should, through the application of policy, legal and institutional framework, adopt measures for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of fisheries resources (FAO 1995). For trans-boundary fish stocks, where multiple states exploit a common fish resource, the states concerned should cooperate to ensure conservation and effective management of the resource. In accordance with this, the riparian states of Lake Victoria, namely Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, have sought technical and financial assistance from the FAO, to form a regional fisheries body. The Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO) was established in 1994, to facilitate the management of Lake Victoria's fish resources as a single ecological entity. In order to carry out its mandate as provided in its convention, the LVFO developed a complex fisheries management structure designed to connect with the East African Community (EAC) national structures to ensure regional equity and standard operating procedures. The LVFO secretariat is considered the executive organ of the LVFO, and is headed by the executive secretary, whose responsibility it is to ensure that the mandate decided upon by the LVFO Council of Ministers (the supreme body of the organization) is carried out. More....
Tough Laws Needed to Curb Drugs, Ivory Trade
Source: Observer.ug
Some of Uganda's laws are outdated and thus not in position to deal with the challenges of the 21st century.
Cases in point are the laws on drug trafficking as well as poaching and smuggling of high-value items such as ivory.
When such laws, most of which provide for a few years in jail or small fines, were enacted, the said crimes were not as prevalent or as destructive as they are today, hence the tendency to be lenient. Now that it's looking increasingly clear some of these laws are out of touch, it's time to update them.
This is necessary to stop Uganda turning into the world's capital of illicit drug and wildlife products trade, given that unscrupulous characters from all over the world are already taking advantage of this weak legal regime.
The newly appointed Director of Public Prosecutions, Mike Chibita, was recently quoted as saying he would like to see tougher sentences for drug trafficking offenders, and we agree in principle.
However, while the death penalty might be politically incorrect, life imprisonment should be deterrent enough for peddling in deadly drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
Besides drugs, another deadly activity that the established laws appear too weak to confront is poaching and transacting in high-value animal products, particularly ivory.
Incidents of ivory being intercepted in Uganda have been rising, including a recent case of a priest arrested in western Uganda and two tonnes impounded at Mombasa, having originated from Uganda. More....
Uganda Impounds Over 2 Tons of Ivory as Two Chinese Arrested in Kampala
Source: Eturbonews.com
By Wolfgang H. Thome
Last weekend security operatives, working hand in hand with enforcement officers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority, arrested two Chinese and two Guineans in Kampala, with a haul of over 1.9 tons of blood ivory ready to be shipped out of the country. Earlier in the week 116 kilos of ivory were confiscated at the airport.
Following that seizure, UWA intelligence personnel were able to confiscate the larger consignment which was due to leave the country by road to Mombasa and make the arrests.
The Guineans, according to a Kampala based source, were already arrested two weeks earlier and their testimony thought to be crucial in arresting the Chinese.
Ugandan officials were swift in reassuring that the ivory was not likely to have come from inside Uganda but was brought into the country from possibly Eastern Congo or South Sudan, where poaching is rife and little done in terms of law enforcement to protect their elephants or prevent regular smuggling of the contraband out of the country. One of the parcels seized appears to have been sent by overland bus from Bujumbura / Burundi to Uganda, but as no poaching figures are available from Burundi it is again suspected that the ivory could have come from either neighbouring Congo DR or even from Tanzania, where in recent weeks the government finally seems to take a stand and make a more determined effort to combat poaching and ivory smuggling.
The four now in custody in Kampala are considered important elements in the search for financiers and traders and indication was given that more arrests could be made soon to hopefully dismantle the entire smuggling operation using Uganda as a transit point for their criminal activities. Well done UWA.
Uganda: Chinese, Guineans Arrested With Ivory
By Simon Musasizi
The arrest of two Chinese, Liu Wei, 24, and Deng Xiaojun, 32, and Guineans Doukoure Sekou, 28, and Abou Toure, 35, could provide leads to the racket behind the 832 pieces of ivory that Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) impounded recently.
On October 19, URA made its biggest ivory catch ever by intercepting ivory pieces at a freight company in Bweyogerere, a city suburb, which were destined for Asia. The ivory, weighing 1,903kg (worth about Shs 6.4bn), raised concerns over the future of elephants around the region given that the 832 pieces got means 416 elephants had been killed.
As security personnel move to establish the owners of this consignment, the arrest of these four could provide necessary leads since they were arrested around the same time as the consignment was planned to be transported out of the country.
The four were found with 116kg of ivory, which brings the total to 2,019kg impounded in one week. The 116kg was being sneaked out through Entebbe International airport, and the suspects, netted on separate occasions, had already beaten the security at the airport to get into the departure terminal with bags full of ivory.
There is strong belief that the four colluded with the immigration officials at the airport, further widening the investigation into this racket. To beat the security, the suspects put polished ivory in form of necklaces, bangles, hair holders, smoking pipes and beads on top of the bags to cover raw ivory cut in pieces that were inside.
But following a tipoff from Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) intelligence officials at the airport, police was able to swing into action and arrest the quartet. According to the Commandant of the Aviation police, Lodovick Awita, it was the Guineans who were first arrested on Friday, October 11.
A week later, Liu was arrested (on Friday, October 18) in similar circumstances like the Guineans, before his countryman Deng was arrested on Sunday. Deng had pangolin scales weighing 2.5kg at the time of his arrest. More....
War against Poaching Gains Momentum in EAC
Source: Pesatimes.com
The war against wildlife poaching has gained new momentum after the US-based Garmin Sub-Saharan Africa appointed Car and General as an East African distributor for its GPS-enabled devices in the region.
The gadget can be effectively used to wildlife conservation, taking into account that the region is susceptible to poaching, which indeed threatens the sustainability of tourism industry.
Commenting on the new initiative, official of the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO) Sirili Akko, said it has come at the right time when potential stakeholders teamed up to fight against poaching.
He said the rate of poaching in the region and particularly in Tanzania is alarming.
Citing recent surveys, Akko said one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its tusks. "At this rate wild African elephants will be extinct in 12 years." He commended Garmin for the move calling other partners to chip-in and together address illegal poaching in the region and Africa at large.
Apart from being used in wildlife conservation, the GPS products for East Africa include outdoor handheld devices that offer the features and functionalities required in farming, mining, surveying, and sustainable fishing. Garmin also offers automotive GPS devices for safe, reliable navigation for on the road.
The nuvi device has a built-in GPS receiver, preloaded with up-to-date maps with over 204,000 kilometers of road coverage in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
According to a statement released here on Thursday, Garmin Ltd said that Car & General has a long standing presence in the East African region, and has good connections within 11 East African countries—Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Seychelles, Somalia and South Sudan. More....
E. Africa Lawmakers Seek Harmonized Legislation to Curb Poaching
Source: China.org.cn
The East African lawmakers have approved a resolution calling on their governments to enact harmonized and an all-inclusive legislation to stem widespread poaching in the region.
The resolution by the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), moved by Kenya's lawmaker Abubakr Ogle, also seeks to categorize wildlife crimes and poaching as a criminal act punishable by imprisonment.
"We are deeply concerned that the East African Community (EAC) region, especially in Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, has become a source of illegally trafficked ivory or a major transiting point for ivory from other countries and represents at least 64 per cent of the total volume of ivory seized around the globe," the EAC legislators' resolution reads in part.
The resolution comes barely a month after African envoys resolved to enact strong and enforceable legal framework to help control rising poaching on the continent.
The ambassadors who held a meeting in Kenya organized by Kenya's Mission to the UN Office at Nairobi (UNON) were also unanimous on the need for the African Diplomatic Corps (ADC) to strongly take up the issue of combating poaching.
In a resolution read on Aug. 19, the African ambassadors termed this as yet another chapter in which a more assertive Africa that seeks to implement solutions to its own challenges comes together.
The EALA resolution also comes in the wake of reports that Tanzania is losing around 30 elephants per day while Kenya loses two daily. More....
Elephant Day to Curb Illegal Ivory Trade
Source: Afriquejet.com
Tanzania declares Elephant Day to curb illegal ivory trade - Tanzania has officially designated 22 Aug. as its Elephant Day to be observed annually to raise public awareness on the need for the giant mammal's survival, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has said.
"The national Elephant Day will provide a forum for all Tanzanians and wildlife conservation stakeholders to share ideas, shape public opinion and policies on how best to protect the elephant population in the country," said Prof. Amos Majule, Director of the Institute of Resource Assessment of the University of Dar es Salaam.
The Institute is collaborating with the ministry in addressing threats posed by human beings, especially poachers and destroyers of the environment in which Tanzania's elephant herd has survived for centuries.
"The elephant is an important source of national revenue through tourism because many travellers pay large sums of money to see and photograph the tuskers in the wild or hunt them for sport," said Majule.
Tanzania is home to Africa's second largest elephant herd after Botswana. Their population, however, has been dwindling in recent years due to illegal hunting for the tusks that have a notoriously big market in the Far East, particularly China and Thailand, despite the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) ban on ivory trade.
"Elephants in Africa play an important role in the Savanna and forest ecosystems as they contribute to maintaining suitable habitat for a myriad of other species," Majule noted.
Meanwhile, the East African Legislative Assembly currently in session in Arusha, Tanzania, has passed a resolution halting the slaughter of elephants and ivory trafficking. More....
Tanzania's Elephant Killing Fields
Source: Mg.co.za
By Florence Majani
Government research shows that 30 elephants are slaughtered a day by poachers in the country.
Ever more of them are going to the grave – and their deaths are haunting the Tanzanian economy.
They are Tanzania's elephants, the second-largest national herd in Africa, after Botswana. There are 70 000 of them, mainly concentrated in the world's largest game park and Unesco World Heritage Site, the Selous Game Reserve, and in the Serengeti, Katavi, Enduimet and Ugalla reserves.
According to the government's Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Tanzania loses 30 elephants a day to poachers. Total numbers are now less than a third of what they were in the 1960s.
"At the end of the year, you're talking about 10 000 elephants killed," says James Lembeli, chairperson of Parliament's natural resources committee and a former parks official. "Move around this country where you have populations of elephants: carcasses everywhere."
In 2011, more than 65% of the carcasses encountered on patrols in Selous had been killed by poachers.
On his visit to Tanzania last month, United States President Barack Obama pledged $10-million to curb the illegal ivory trade. He called for the formation of a dedicated Cabinet committee to develop a national strategy on the issue within six months.
A 2011 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) report indicates that, since 2009, most illegal ivory has come from Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa. Last year, it reported that most ivory consignments left through the Indian Ocean seaports of Tanzania and Kenya. The statistics also show that Kenya and Tanzania together accounted for 16 of the 34 large-scale ivory seizures recorded from 2009 through 2011. More....
New Mexico Man in Trouble for Selling Elephant Tusks
Source: Care2.com
By Susan Bird
A businessman from New Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola, Florida for the illegal sale of two African elephant tusks. Charles Kokesh is alleged to have imported a sport-hunted African elephant trophy mount from Namibia in a legal manner, but then illegally removing the tusks to sell them to a buyer in Florida.
Kokesh is charged with violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act for removing and selling the trophy's tusks and for "making false accounts of wildlife related to that sale" to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Elephant tusks represent the most prized form of ivory in the world. Overwhelming global demand for ivory brought the world's elephant population to near extinction between 1979 and 1989. While their numbers have rebounded to some extent since then, African elephants are by no means out of danger.
According to the Department of Justice, Kokesh's trophy mount came from Namibia, one of 175 countries which has signed the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). CITES, established in 1973, regulates international trade in wildlife and plants for populations that need protection. In Namibia, under CITES, African elephants may still be hunted for sport and "personal" use, but may not be used for "commercial" purposes.
The United States, also a CITES member country, forbids via the Endangered Species Act the "commercial" use, including sale, of sport-hunted African elephant trophies, even if the trophies are legally hunted and imported, as Kokesh's apparently was. African elephants are considered a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act, meaning they are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of their range.
The sport hunting of elephants is permitted under CITES in several countries. Elephant trophies can be legally exported from Botswana, Cameroon, Gabon, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. More....
Namibia: Afrika - the Other Side of the Coin Poaching, an Age-Old Endemic Crime
By Udo Froese (opinion)
The extension of human settlement into Namibia and the rest of Africa and with it the ever present so-called civil, tribal and rebel wars, of structured poverty and plunder of all natural resources have contributed massively to the extinction of animal species, not only in Namibia.
One would only have to read and look at old photographs and drawings in those old colonial history books among others, authored by David Livingstone and Thomas Baines, by missionaries and respected writers of yesteryear, to see how the abundance of game on this continent was decimated and wiped off the continent's face.
Similar to North America, family members of royal households from Europe ventured into Africa and cleaned out whole herds of wild game. It was the game of the bluebloods ... old chap, with your whisky, or gin and tonic in one hand and a rifle in the other with a mouthful of tall hunting stories and meat at the fireside - this soon had become the privilege and joy of the European settlers in foreign Africa.
In the case of Namibia, two incidents come to this writer's mind. My late father, who was born in Omaruru in 1915, told us at one of his favoured braais at home in Windhoek over a few beers and whiskies that he had witnessed in the 1920s how the South Africans flew in with their small fighter airplanes with a machine-gun mounted in the front of it. At that time the Union of South Africa had been handed Namibia as a C Mandate, as Germany had lost World War 1 and therefore, its colonies in Africa.
Those South African fighter airplanes did not fly over Namibia in the 1920s to protect the territory, but to hunt. Huge herds of springbok, kudu, gemsbok (antelope) and eland were machine-gunned by the thousands. More....
Pledging to Help
Source: Animalcsi.com
Some good, some bad. Recently, 10 African countries (Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Central Africa Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Rwanda and Sao Tome e Principe) signed a plan to "strengthen law enforcement and better combat poaching of elephants and other species at risk from illegal wildlife trade" (Seattlepi.com). These 10 countries make up the Central African Forest Commission, or COMIFAC.
Leaders from COMIFAC agreed to increase collaboration with law enforcement, customs, and the courts to combat poaching:
"The law enforcement action plan includes provisions to increase anti-poaching efforts in each of the countries and to enable joint-country patrols in some transborder areas. Ivory, often bound for Asia, is frequently smuggled across inland borders before reaching overseas exit points such as ports and airports. Under the plan, customs controls are also set to be bolstered at international transit hubs. To ensure that criminals engaging in illegal wildlife trade are arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, COMIFAC countries plan to ramp up investigations and conduct more thorough prosecutions. Cases will also be monitored for corruption and action taken against anyone attempting to impede justice" (Seattlepi.com).
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/press-releases/article/New-Hope-for-Elephants-Under-Threat-in-Central-3615004.php Previously I had posted on the devastating slaughter of over 200 elephants in Cameroon. With poaching at its highest in a decade, this agreement could not come at a better time. A UN-backed report reinforced what many studies have already shown – that the past three years have seen an extreme increase in elephant poaching with record seizures of ivory, and much more sophisticated efforts on the part of poachers.
"We need to enhance our collective efforts across range, transit and consumer states to reverse the current disturbing trends in elephant poaching and ivory smuggling," the Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John E. Scanlon, said in a news release on the report. More....
The £6bn Trade in Animal Smuggling
By Maryrose Fison
Animal smuggling has grown to a £6bn-a-year criminal industry, and is exceeded only by the drugs and arms trades. Its illicit profits are a major source of funding for terrorist and militia groups, including al-Qa'ida, and the snaring and slaughtering of animals is driving dozens of species to the brink of extinction.
These are the main findings from a month-long Independent on Sunday investigation into the growing scale and impact of wildlife trafficking – an illicit business which, thanks to huge profits and the violence to which it so readily resorts, is overwhelming the law and order resources ranged against it.
For all the international treaties, police units, campaign groups and NGOs battling it, the trade continues to grow. The world's tiger population has plummeted from 100,000 at the start of the 20th century to below 4,000 today; 20,000 elephants are killed each year for their ivory; the number of rhino poached in South Africa doubled last year; sea turtles are being harvested at an astonishing rate, their shells turned into jewellery; and, over the past 40 years, 12 species of large animal have vanished completely in Vietnam. The trade takes its toll in human lives, too. Each year, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, more than 100 African rangers are killed, the men unequipped to cope with armed poachers.
Many people associate animal smuggling with small-time crooks trying to bring a few lizards in a suitcase to be sold by the under-the-counter pet trade. It is, in fact, a multifaceted business catering to huge demand among collectors for exotic species, ornaments and clothing, plus traditional Chinese medicine's industrial-scale appetite for animal parts. Linda Arroyo, team leader at Sweden's National Police for Environmental Crime, says widely held superstitions surrounding certain animal parts drive the illegal industry within Asia. "There are beliefs that rhino horns cure cancer, that if you drink out of a rhino horn cup you get eternal happiness, and that some of these wild animals raise men's potency. The fact that the Asian economy is growing makes it possible for more people to buy these products."
Bones, paws and penises of tigers and leopards are used as aphrodisiacs in Mong La, a northern state of Burma with a large sex industry, according to an extensive study of the big cat trade conducted by the wildlife NGO Traffic last year. Large vats of tiger-bone wine – which sell for between $40 and $100 a bottle – were being promoted as a health tonic in outlets catering to Chinese customers. Around the world, including in US Chinese medicine stores, bear bile is widely used to "treat" a multitude of symptoms from swollen eyes and haemorrhoids to skin lesions and fever. More....
'Burundi Refugees Main Poachers in Katavi Park'
Source: Dailynews.co.tz
By Peti Siyame
Management of Katavi National Park in the newly formed Katavi Region affirms that over seventy per cent of poaching activities were carried out by Burundian refugees who allegedly used modern military weapons to kill the wild animals and made away with carcasses and national trophies.
In charge of security at Katavi National Park, Mr Davis Mushi, told reporters in Mpanda Township recently that some Burundian refugees at Mishamo and Katumba refugee camps in Mpanda district were actively trespassing into the national park and subsequently illegally killing wild animals including huge herds of buffalo, zebras, impalas, elephants and waterbucks and made away with their carcasses as well as tusks.
He further said that so far many suspects most of whom were identified as Burundian refugees have been arrested and several modern military weapons have been seized during special operations in collaboration with other state organs and cooperation accorded by residents of the villages surrounding the National Park.
"The poaching is still going on here. there is petty poaching carried out by people surrounding the park who kill for meat for domestic consumption only. But there is large scale business oriented poaching mostly carried out by Burundian refugees, and this is the most dangerous poaching because, as you all know, we have big refugee camps,'' added Mr Mushi.
Katavi National Park, Tanzania's third largest national park (4471 km²), is the heart of one of the biggest and richest wildlife areas in the country and is located along the rift escarpment in western Tanzania. More....
Militant Groups Fuel Poaching in East Africa
Source: Mobile.theeastafrican.co.ke
The seizure last week of elephant tusks in the Al Shabaab controlled area of Somalia has raised concerns the rebel group may be targeting Kenya's treasured wildlife to raise funds for its war activities.
Bonaventure Ebayi, the director of the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF), a regional anti-poaching initiative operating from Kenya, confirmed the seizure.
"We were able to use the Kenya security forces and with assistance of security forces from the Somali Transitional Federal Government to recovery the ivory," Ebayi told Xinhua in an interview in Nairobi on Wednesday.
The ivory is suspected to have come from the Arawale National Reserve, a 533 sq kilometer wildlife sanctuary managed by Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS).
The official said the seizure, the first of its kind in the region, has raised concern of increased poaching in the region, where areas near insurgent activities the most affected by wildlife crime.
"The challenge of poaching and illegal wildlife meat in eastern Africa is made worse by insecure patches especially along the shared borders," said Ebayi.
Several border points, rich in wildlife, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia, among others, are controlled by insurgents, Ebayi said.
Kenya is one of the countries that has seen its elephant population decline sharply due to poaching, which peaked in the mid-80s before a concerted government effort that led to the arrest and prosecution of poachers.
"It is in such areas where lack of state presence, means illicit small arms like guns are available to criminals and can easily be used to kill wildlife." More....


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Q: Adding data to DOM elements using jQuery and seeing it in the browser Suppose I have the straightforward code:
$(".myclass").data("key", "value");

I was initially expecting to find in my Chrome browser something like
<div class="myclass" data-key="value">

But I did not. Also, the following css would not be applied:
[data-key='value'] { background-color: red; }

On more reflection, it makes sense that it's not there since writing it in the html file is a way to pass data to javascript and not the other way around.
However, for testing purpose, I wonder if it is possible to look at what is stored in the data using my browser. I'm using Chrome, but I expect that it should be similar for all browsers. Thanks.

A: Jquery data api doesn't add an attribute to the DOM element. It just stores the value in data cache along with other data attribute values which is present in the DOM element as a data-*. What you need to do it to add attribute.
$(".myclass").attr("data-key", "value");

The data- attributes are pulled in the first time the data property is accessed and then are no longer accessed or mutated (all data values are then stored internally in jQuery).

You can look at all the data attached to an element using
 $(".myclass").data();

It will return the object with all kvp.

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here. Much of 17. We're gonna discuss cryptography, so we're gonna have several different sections here. We're going to first start off talking about algorithms, and then we're gonna talk about message hashing, and then we're also going to talk about cryptography tools that we can use.
So let's go ahead and get started. So we got a brief pre assessment like we normally do. Just a couple of questions here. So this uses a single key for both encryption and encryptions. And which one of those is that?
All rights. If you guessed, answer, be symmetric encryption. You are correct. So that one uses a single key for both encryption and decryption. Now, asymmetric encryption is going to use to key, so it's going to use a public, and a private team will go over that a little later on.
Hashing is gonna be used for file integrity or integrity of our data
and then playing Texas what you're looking at right here, it's information that you can just read is we type it up. We share share with each other
question number two All the following of these air primary functions of cryptography in today's world Except which one?
All right, this was pretty easy. So if you just answer D O S I u r creeks or size, actually a networking model. We cover that in the first module of this course.
So authentication, I'm just making sure that you are who you say you are, you know, Or that data is You know what? It's supposed to be
confidentiality. I'm making sure that I don't share information with people that don't need to know about it right now than integrity. I'm just again verifying that this is the information that is not altered.
So some of the terms you're gonna need to know. Just cryptography. In general, it's a study and practice of techniques for secure communications in the presence of third parties. So again, we think of asymmetric encryption. I encrypt it and we'll talk about it. We'll talk about this, but I encrypt it and then I send it to you, and then you decrypted, right? So somebody in between us can't see that so that third party can't see the information.
Krypton. Allison says the study of analyzing information systems to study the different hidden aspects of the system and then cipher, which will actually talk about, is one of the algorithms that we can use for performing encryption and decryption.
So top secret cryptography. We just talked about this a second ago, symmetric and asymmetric and then hashing so against the metric is using that one key to encrypt and decrypted data Asymmetric is using the public and private key and then hashing is just verifying the integrity. And that's a one way function function. Excuse me, hashing is
Jackie's a term you're gonna need to know for the actual sort of fine ethical hacker examination. If you're not taking that, you could just fast forward video. But basically, you just need to know the context of it stands for government access to keys. And all that means is basically that as a company, as a software company, I have to make sure and certain countries have to make sure that the
I either give a copy of the keys to the government or that they get enough information for me that they could easily crack the key
and, you know, get into the software of you know, of the bad guys are her basically, whoever they're trying to look at.
So encryption algorithms. We got many of them here like ciphers A s, three desks to fish, Arcee, etcetera, etcetera. So we're gonna talk about one of these individually. I do want to stress that you don't have to know these on a very intricate level. Just a very high level. Just know a little bit about each one, and you should be good to go for the exam.
So ciphers these we're gonna be generally substituting the same number of characters that are input for the same output on and then plain tax would show we talked about earlier. It's just what you're seeing here. We're just typing up stuff and you can read it. Cipher text is gonna be the encrypted version of that.
So we've got a black site for versus Stream star for so basically the difference there. Stream suffering Crips. One bidder, one bite at a time. So every single individual, one and then black cipher, basically just since a chunk of information. Right. So it it hence the name block, right. It's a chunk of information or black of information.
And that's how it's gonna encrypted data in that block
on the screen here. I've got the Caesar block and basically we don't know. We don't know if he really uses or not, but this is a 16 character thing here. So this message Great job. If you great job, you gotta excuse me. We just write it down in each column all the way through and you see you see it there.
By the way, I've never seen that in used to the Caesar block and use an industry. Just one of those textbook things you just learned about
us. We've got D s and triple deaths. So data encryption standard. It's 56 big key sides. It's insecure, but it's, ah influential because it kind of helped all these other cryptography things come into place
on Ben. We got triple desk or three deaths. It basically applies this three times each block. And both of these air symmetric form of encryption.
Hey, yes, or advanced encryption Standard s Oh, this one is symmetric as well. It uses 128 big block size and then they variable key length of 1 28 1 92 or 256 bits.
So the river cipher so RC four R C five and 36 is RC for that guy. Right there is Ron Rivest. So he's the inventor of all these ones. They're on, and a lot of people just call it the Ron Cipher or not the River Cipher, But many most of these air, not even in use
at all. You might see RC six
kind of sort of some places. Maybe it's really not used in industry that
so basically, the way the RC four works is the first few bites of the output key stream are non random, and so that's one of our vulnerability. So basically, if you analyze a high volume or a large amount of messages, you can potentially discover that the key over the long term because again that first initial first part of it's not random at all.
So our C five came and plays well, that's gotta very well block size on, and then the key sizes upto 2040 bits.
One feature of this is data dependent rotations. Oh, are you know that a resistant and basically that just means that it makes it more resistant crypt analysis and then also its rotation dependent. And that's focused on the least significant few bits. So we'll talk about that in our C six here.
The difference is there's just remember RC five least significant few bits is how the rotations dependable dependent upon that
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EA flight 702 Hijacked plane lands in Geneva
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Passengers disembarked Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 after it was hijacked and landed in Geneva
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An Ethiopian Airlines plane landed at Geneva Airport Monday morning after having been hijacked by the co-pilot. All passengers disembarked safely and the hijacker was arrested, according to Swiss police.
Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement that one of its flights had been "forced to proceed" to Geneva, adding that all passengers and crew were safe at the airport.
The co-pilot of the plane hijacked it while the pilot was taking a bathroom break, according to an airport spokesman, and took the opportunity to lock himself in the cockpit and take control of the plane. The Ethiopian hijacker, who was born in 1983, had wanted to be granted asylum in Switzerland. He exited the cockpit window using a rope and gave himself up to police, announcing that he was the hijacker.
Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 was headed from Addis Ababa to Rome and was to have landed in Rome at 4:40 a.m. The hijacking took place over southern Italian airspace. Two Italian fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the plane.
After landing the plane, the co-pilot exited the cockpit through a window and did not resist arrest, according to airport authorities.
Passengers were seen leaving the plane with their hands over their heads and escorted to waiting vehicles.
Ethiopian Airlines is owned by the Ethiopian government, which has long faced criticism over its human rights record. According to Federal Migration Office statistics, 843 Ethiopians were in the process of seeking asylum in Switzerland in 2013, and 246 new applications for asylum from Ethiopia were submitted last year.
Geneva prosecutor Olivier Jornot told a press conference that Swiss federal authorities were investigating the hijacking and would press charges that could carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Flight arrivals and departures were halted at Geneva Airport after the hijacked airliner landed at around 6 a.m. local time and numerous flights were re-routed or cancelled. Arrivals and departures have since resumed.
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Hijacked plane lands in Geneva Feb 17, 2014 - 10:49 An Ethiopian Airlines plane landed at Geneva Airport Monday morning after having been hijacked by the co-pilot. All passengers disembarked safely and the hijacker was arrested, according to Swiss police. Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement that one of its flights had been "forced to proceed" to Geneva, adding that all passengers and crew were safe at the airport. The co-pilot of the plane hijacked it while the pilot was taking a bathroom break, according to an airport spokesman, and took the opportunity to lock himself in the cockpit and take control of the plane. The Ethiopian hijacker, who was born in 1983, had wanted to be granted asylum in Switzerland. He exited the cockpit window using a rope and gave himself up to police, announcing that he was the hijacker. Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 was headed from Addis Ababa to Rome and was to have landed in Rome at 4:40 a.m. The hijacking took place over southern Italian airspace. Two Italian fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the plane. After landing the plane, the co-pilot exited the cockpit through a window and did not resist arrest, according to airport authorities. Passengers were seen leaving the plane with their hands over their heads and escorted to waiting vehicles. Ethiopian Airlines is owned by the Ethiopian government, which has long faced criticism over its human rights record. According to Federal Migration Office statistics, 843 Ethiopians were in the process of seeking asylum in Switzerland in 2013, and 246 new applications for asylum from Ethiopia were submitted last year. Geneva prosecutor Olivier Jornot told a press conference that Swiss federal authorities were investigating the hijacking and would press charges that could carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Flight arrivals and departures were halted at Geneva Airport after the hijacked airliner landed at around 6 a.m. local time and numerous flights were re-routed or cancelled. Arrivals and departures have since resumed.


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Arson in the Old Y, is our third and final post in advance of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia coming up next week on May 17th.
On the evening of April 20th, 1989 a fire was started in the basement office of Lesbian and Gay Youth Calgary (LGYC), one of several gay and lesbian groups housed at the Old Y, 223 12 Ave. SW (now called CommunityWise). Firefighters were called around 8:30 pm to extinguish the blaze which fortunately was contained to the LGYC office. There were no injuries, but about 40 people were evacuated from the three-storey brick building. The LGYC office was heavily damaged by smoke and there was approximately $1000 worth of structural damage to the building.
"Quick extinguishing of the blaze kept damage to a minimum," said fire department Captain Gord Cantley to local press.
Arson investigators determined the blaze was deliberately set. The fire was started in a garbage can and was made to appear as an accident. None of the contents of the office were disrupted and it occurred about an hour after volunteers had left the LGYC office.
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Stephen Lock, who worked at Gay Lines upstairs in the Old Y, speculated that LGYC had been targeted. He said: "The fact that the offices are tucked away in the basement in a maze-like area indicates to me somebody searched them out."
The LGBT community was bracing for an increase in violence that summer due to the very high profile Gordon Summers case in Calgary. The 24-year old, who knowingly was HIV positive, faced three counts of aggravated assault for allegedly having unprotected sex with one man and two women, one his girlfriend. This precedent-setting legal case made Summers a household name that April, and a source of AIDS panic locally. {He later pled guilty to the lesser charge of being a common nuisance and was sentenced to a year in jail.}
The arson investigation seemed dormant for a couple of months but then police started questioning members of LGYC. In June, the group received a letter from the city stating that the investigation may reveal that LGYC was responsible for the damages to the city-owned building, surprising everyone at the Old Y.
That same day as receiving the letter, the Police arrested 19-year old Robert John Girouard at the LGYC office, who was carted away to the surprise and shock of the other LGYC members present. LGYC later released a public statement: "It is the position of Lesbian and Gay Youth Group of Calgary, that the arrest was unjust and that the accused is completely innocent."
Girouard went to court July 11th and pled not guilty. The court set a preliminary inquiry date for October 18th, but it is unclear that he was ever convicted.
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Following a complaint submitted by Transparency International in September, a leaked legal opinion from the European Commission has confirmed that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has a conflict of interest concerning his role as Prime Minster, his company Agrofert and its receipt of EU funds. Agrofert received €82 million in European Structural and Investment funds in 2017.
According to the opinion, "the situation of Mr Babiš qualifies as a conflict of interest within the meaning of article 61(3) of the New Financial Regulation." The document states that his impartiality and objectivity as Prime Minister in relation to the management of funds are compromised.
"It's checkmate for Prime Minister Babiš, Agrofert and its receipt of EU subsidies. We had good reason to bring this to the attention of the European Commission and now want to see this conflict of interest resolved and the money returned".
The opinion has proposed a number of measures to resolve these conflicts of interest, including the ineligibility of Agrofert for future EU funding and the repayment of funds that have already been granted. Transparency International has written today to the European Commission requesting speedy clarification of the measures the Commission will put in place.
"We have seen too many occasions in the past where EU funds have subsidised the concentration of power in Member States, leading us down the slippery slope to authoritarianism and systematic corruption. The Commission needs to move quickly and draw a line in the sand. It will send an important message that EU funds are shared funds for shared objectives based on shared values".
In September, Transparency International Czech Republic sent an open letter to European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu, after it was discovered that Mr Babiš entrusted 100% of the shares of his company Agrofert, a.s. into two trusts of which he is the beneficiary and founder. The company is a beneficiary of both EU and local funds.
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a 44-year-old father of three, Gabriel Anthony, for ingesting 96 pellets of cocaine, which he excreted while in the custody of the agency.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja.
Mr Babafemi said that Mr Anthony who was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Friday, Nov. 26 was a native of Nike in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu State.
He said that the suspect was arrested during an outward clearance of Turkish Airlines at the boarding screening area of the airport en route Abuja-Istanbul-Madrid.
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According to him, the suspect had travelled to Germany in 1996 for two years on asylum after which he relocated to Spain in 1999.
"That was where he currently holds a residence permit and works as a driver in a food manufacturing company.
"He claimed he came into Nigeria on Nov. 17 to sell clothes and car spare parts he shipped to Lagos earlier.
"He however said he could not sell his consignments, which cost him 4,000 Euros excluding the cost of shipment because they were priced below the cost price at Ladipo market in Lagos.
"And he needed to travel back to Spain to resume work after the expiration of his annual leave, " he said.
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Babafemi added that the suspect confessed to have accepted the offer to traffic the drug for which he would be paid 1,500 Euros when he successfully deliver the consignment to someone in Spain.
According to Babafemi, the suspect claimed he left Lagos for Enugu to see his family members, and then travelled on Nov. 25 to Onitsha in Anambra.
"This was where he was picked from Upper Iweka park at night and taken to a house where he was given the 96 pellets of cocaine.
"Thereby ingesting before leaving for Abuja to board his flight to Madrid the following day," he added.
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Q: how to get ride margin around the div at the top of the page this is a pic of the problem look at the margin at around the div
the div at the top of the page has a margin on it even though i tried to set the margin to 0 and the padding to 0 it still did not work when I put !important after them.
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.logoimg {
  widt: 320px;
  height: 100px;
  padding-right: 20px;
  padding-top: 3.5px;
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.logotext{
  font-family: 'flower', cursive;

padding-bottom: 1.5px;
  font-weight: 6;
  color: #c9c042;
  border-radius-bottom: 10px;
  font-size: 90px;
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.logo{
display: flex;
align-items: center;
  margin: 0 auto;
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  margin-right: auto;
  padding: 0 auto;
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A: My first recommendation would be to use the inspector tools on your browser. Learn more about this here: https://blog.hubspot.com/website/how-to-inspect
You can then find which element has padding, or margin, by looking at the box model, which is typically found at the bottom of the inspector tools.
To remove the main div's margin, you can write this:
.logobackground{
margin: 0;
}

If you still see the margin, then it could be the body element. Write:
body {
    margin: 0;
    }

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*More about the box model:https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_boxmodel.asp

*YouTube tutorial to inspect elements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4xz1QQhew

*Learn about CSS margin: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_margin.asp

A: I'd suggest debugging on a browser and viewing the elements css. That should lead to the exact element that is causing that padding.


How to write a good college essay is a big question that is on many college applicants minds. Your essay will be the first impression you have on the college you are applying for. It is important that you what you write is how you want to present yourself to the college. The essay is the biggest thing between be accepted to the college of your dreams, or getting a rejection letter in the mail.
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Next you want to brainstorm about the topic that has been given to you. You can explain something that has helped you in becoming who you are, or about something you love. You need to be able to tie your experiences to evidence that will support your writing. In other words, if you write about helping the poor, you should have some extra curricular activities to support this.
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Lovers and Liars Book 5: A Deadly Game of Malice
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GENRE: Gay Historical Romance
It's spring 1942. Caroline Graham is six months pregnant, overweight, irritable, and most decidedly bored with her "delicate" condition. She hates being tied down and resents her husband Cyril and her cousin Edward for being off on assignment and having fun while she's confined to the village. She grows more restless each day, and her good friend and confidant Leslie Atwater does his best to boost her spirits but fails miserably. What Caroline needs is a problem to solve, "something juicy" to challenge her mind. And, of course, that's exactly what she gets.
Be careful what you wish for.
First there's a rash of poison pen letters circulating in the village. Librarian Elspeth Hunter receives a letter, and is the first to die, presumably by her own hand. Other deaths follow. Are the sudden deaths connected to the letters? As weeks pass and the bodies mount, Caroline and Leslie discover a pattern that suggests something more sinister is at work. With Leslie's help, Caroline must use all her cunning and put her life at risk to uncover a cold-blooded murderer -- a remorseless killer who continues to raise the stakes in a deadly game of malice.
Nothing much happens in an English village. Even in wartime. Elspeth Hunter sat at her desk and looked out the library window at a beautiful spring day. One of the finest in a long while. And she'd be damned if she missed the end of it.
Tuesdays were always a slow affair, and this one proved no exception. With only a handful of books to reshelf and a minimal amount of general housekeeping to complete at her desk, Elspeth was bored stiff.
Somehow, and with great effort, she made it till noon when she slipped out to the teashop across the way for a sweet and a pot of tea. She was the only employee in the small village library and could come and go as she pleased, as long as she locked up the place securely. Still, there was that little voice in her head telling her to put in a full day's work, even though anyone could see there was very little to do until the crowds arrived in the early evening hours.
Elspeth couldn't wait till evening and imagined herself at home, safely tucked up in her comfy bed, the blackouts drawn, and the light from the small bedside lamp illuminating the pages of the latest Christie mystery. Being a librarian had its advantages indeed.
During the daytime, with most villagers at work and the children in school, she often closed the library in the afternoon and opened up again later. Elspeth glanced at her watch. Half three. She fished in her desk drawer for her keys, and after putting on her warm coat, hat, and woolen scarf, she locked up and headed for home.
The air was crisp for April, but the sun was out and everything looked leafy and green. Elspeth spotted Vicar Crandall and his lovely wife, Moira, walking on the opposite side of the street. The vicar tipped his hat and Elspeth waved. She's far too young for such an old goat. Ought to be ashamed of himself. Even if he is a holy man.
Elspeth reflected on how difficult it was these days to tell who was who in town, especially with the constant influx of evacuees from the cities; it seemed the population changed daily with so many unfamiliar faces roaming about. Amazing she ran into anyone she knew by their first names. Let alone their surnames.
It wasn't much of a distance to her home, but given her advanced age -- almost into her seventies, Elspeth found her breaths coming in short little gasps by the time she opened the gate, collected the afternoon post, and made it up the five small steps to the front door.
Once inside, and taking a moment until her breathing reverted to normal, she hung up her coat and scarf, dropped her handbag and keys on the hall table, and went straight back to the kitchen where she put on the kettle and set it to boil. A nice cuppa and I'll be right as rain. Then she busied herself with the tea things and set out a packet of biscuits on the table.
She waited for the kettle to boil and leafed through the post. Nothing much. A bulletin from the Ministry of Food extolling the virtues of the National Loaf -- a brown bread that most Britishers considered inedible, nasty tasting, and above and beyond what was required for the war effort. High in vitamin E, they say, and considered an aphrodisiac by some. A lot of good that does me at my age! Elspeth suppressed a laugh and looked over the next piece of mail: a letter addressed to her, yet with no return address from the sender. Odd.
A loud whistling sound, and Elspeth turned to switch off the kettle. She slit open the envelope with a kitchen knife and focused on the two simple sentences typed on plain white paper. But nothing was simple about the message. Not for Elspeth Hunter. She keeled over in a dead faint.
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Hidden Jewel Trail Opens Along MST in Yadkin Valley
Thanks to a change of heart, a trail to the hidden jewel Carter Falls has just opened along the Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST) near Elkin in Yadkin Valley wine country.
An Our State magazine cover story about the MST says for decades developers and others have had an eye on Carter Falls, which was on land owned by local attorney Dan Park and used by him as a personal retreat. Until 2018 Dan had rejected any offers to purchase the falls and surrounding property. Many people, including Elkin residents, were unaware of the falls existence.
Fortunately, according to an article in the Elkin Tribune, Park decided "I would really love to see it being looked after…it is just a beautiful piece of land and it still is, and I think the trail people will preserve it."
Seizing the opportunity, the state stepped in with Connect North Carolina Bond money appropriated during the McCrory Governorship and carried on by Cooper's Administration to purchase Carter Falls and the 43 acres surrounding it. Park also donated an 11-acre easement in the area.
Volunteers with Elkin Valley Trail Association (EVTA), led by retired businessman Bob Hillyer and retired physician Dr. Bill Blackley, spearheaded the local effort to protect the falls and the idea of connecting the trail to the MST. The partnership has included Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, Wilkes County Commissioners, the Town of Elkin, NC State Property Office and NC Division of Parks and Recreation.
A 3.1 mile trail from Isaac's Trailhead starts about three and a half miles from Elkin, a small tourism community northwest of Winston-Salem. The trail follows Grassy Creek and then courses past the Grassy Creek Vineyard spur and on through the forest to Byrd's Branch Campground and then to Carter Falls Trailhead. From the trailhead at the Falls it is about 0.25 miles through the forest to a trail about 40 yards up stream of the Falls. The walk along this section of the trail is level, wide and smooth. At the end of this walk there is a run of 40-food wide cascades that drop rambunctiously about 60 feet.
From there four relatively short serpentine switchbacks leads down to the falls pool. Near the bottom, walking can require hand holding small trees for balance. Many groups of children and older folks have made this trek down without significant problems but it is a steep descent the last 30 feet. Caution around waterfalls is always the rule. Making the trail handicap accessible and building a bridge spanning 160 to 200-feet are part of the plans.
"The Carter Falls area is set between two wilderness cliffs with the falls rumbling down the middle of a native forest uncut for over 60 years," said Dr. Blackley. "If you love the outdoors, you couldn't ask for anything more."
Hiilyer said, "We're going to keep working hard to pull together Carter Falls with all the pieces for the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in this region that are attracting state and national attention and visitors to our community."
In addition to the MST, the Yadkin River Blue Water Trail runs through Elkin where there is a good boat dock and landing, boat rack, campground and easy access to provisions and downtown amenities. Also, the Elkin Municipal Park is the site of a national marker delineating this site as the eastern terminus of the historic Overmountain Victory Trail. Segment 6 of the MST stretches 70 + miles from Pilot Mountain State Park to Elkin, on to Stone Mountain State Park and Devil's Garden on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
"Elkin is a small community role model of how to build economic development through a marriage with outdoor enthusiasts," said Kate Dixon, Friends of the MST executive director. "You couldn't have a better place to complete another link of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail."
Elkin is also at the epicenter of the Yadkin Valley wine country, which is North Carolina' first federally recognized American Viticulture Area. Each year more than 25 wineries participate in the Yadkin Valley Wine Festival when Elkin Valley Trails Association also hosts the Yadkin Valley Tour de Vino road bike rides of 25, 50, 71 and 100 miles. Elkin also in now completing phase III of the Elkin Creek and Iron Falls Mountain Bike Trails that will offer approximately 7.5 miles of trail. In addition, six outfitters are currently available to provide and/or shuttle kayaks and canoes for multiple paddle legs, some running concurrent with the MST route for a change of pace, pun intended.
To reach the Carter Falls trailhead from Elkin downtown, take US Hwy 21 North Business; at US Hwy 21 and Brookfall Dairy Road turn left; go about a mile and turn right on Martin-Byrd Road that winds around and through Byrd's Branch Campground. At the end of Martin-Byrd there will be a fenced gravel parking lot for 15 cars. The base of the falls is 0.25 miles away.
An alternative is to park at Isaac's Trailhead and walk about 3 miles to Carter Falls one way. Along the way is a half mile spur to Grassy Creek Vineyard where a hiker may purchase a glass of wine.
Download a map here.
(Photo Courtesy of Joe Mickey.)
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Kik claims currencies are not securities; still awaiting SEC's decision whether to pursue an enforcement action
May 17, 2019, 1:00PM EDT
Back in 2017, messenger app Kik raised $100 million in an initial coin offering (ICO). The U.S. SEC believes the company issued unregistered security. Following Kik's submission of a Wells Response last December, the SEC is almost out of time to decide whether to pursue an enforcement action against the company, a16z writes.
Kik explained the cryptocurrency had been created to integrate it with the platform. It also pointed out its good "good faith compliance efforts," including KYC/AML and OFAC screening as well as paying taxes on token sale revenues. Kik argued currencies are not securities under existing law.
According to a16z Kik could argue that "that there's no common enterprise between them and the Kin purchasers" as "common enterprise" is a necessary part for a coin to be a security under the Howey test.
Basing on reviewed public information, a16z writes it does not seem Kik was "under any contractual obligation to the purchasers" apart from its part to deliver the tokens. Kik also pointed out the "consumptive use" of the coins, it claimed, were not meant for investment. Half of participants purchased less than $1,000 of Kin, and the company promoted "broad participation."
While most companies opt to settle with the SEC to avoid high costs in case of a loss, Kik decided against a settlement. Therefore, the SEC may recommend enforcement action if it doesn't deem Kik's explanation as sufficient.
The whole process has been costly for the company. According to Kik founder Ted Livingston, the company has already spent $5 million on the negotiations during the last 18 months, CoinDesk writes.