Galliers, a senior member of the Game Rangers Association of Africa, said local rangers were placing their lives on the line to protect rhinos and other species of wildlife from determined gangs of armed criminals, and were hoping for stronger support from the judiciary.ĭr George Hughes, former head of the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife conservation agency, said he was “dreadfully disappointed” by the sentences for Xulu and Buthelezi, likening their penalties to those for petty shoplifting at a supermarket. “This trial should never have been allowed to drag on for so long and we hope that other outstanding rhino poaching cases in KwaZulu-Natal will now be dealt with as quickly as possible,” said Chris Galliers, co-ordinator of the Project Rhino initiative. They also slammed the apparent lenient sentences for Khoza’s accomplices. Reacting to the outcome on Tuesday night, senior conservationists welcomed the conviction and sentence for Khoza, but expressed frustration that a seemingly clear-cut case had dragged on for so long. The white rhino population in South Africa’s flagship Kruger National Park has also been cut in half from poaching over the last decade and rhino poaching has also been declared a national priority crime to safeguard the country’s rhino herd from unprecedented rates of illegal slaughter. Nearly 7,000 rhinos have been slaughtered by poachers nationwide since 2008. Elizalde said he heeded a police officer’s command to leave the building but lingered outside “to observe the scene for a little while because he knew something historic was happening,” the FBI said.A fourth suspect jumped bail during the trial and is still at large. Videos show a man matching Elizalde’s description holding a flag when he entered the Capitol through the Senate wing doors and leaving the building about three minutes later through the same doors. Then-President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters before the mob attacked the Capitol, disrupting the congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Truman when he drove alone from Norfolk, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. The FBI arrested David Elizalde on Sunday in Arlington, Virginia, on misdemeanor charges, including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, according to a court filing.Įlizalde told the FBI that he was stationed on the USS Harry S. Capitol was stationed on an aircraft carrier in Virginia when he joined a mob’s attack on the building, according to a court filing Monday. (AP) - A Navy sailor charged with storming the U.S.
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