中國"象牙女王"楊鳳蘭在坦桑尼亞被捕

A Tanzanian court has charged a prominent Chinese businesswoman, dubbed the "Ivory Queen", with running a criminal network responsible for smuggling tusks from more than 350 elephants, court documents show.

坦桑尼亞一家法院近日指控被稱爲“象牙女王”的中國企業家。根據法庭文件顯示，她被控領導象牙走私犯罪集團，走私超過350頭大象的象牙。

Yang Feng Glan, 66, was accused in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, this week of smuggling 706 pieces of ivory between 2000 and 2014 worth $3.4 million.

楊鳳蘭，66歲，本週在坦桑尼亞的經濟中心達累斯薩拉姆被抓獲。從2000到2014年，她共走私了706件價值3400000美元的象牙。

Glan, a Swahili-speaker who has been in the east African nation since the 1970s, is secretary-general of the Tanzania China-Africa Business owns a popular Chinese restaurant in Dar es Salaam, according to police sources.

據來自警方的消息，楊鳳蘭說斯瓦希里語，早在20世紀70年代以來就居住在東非國家，是坦桑尼亞中國非洲商業委員會的祕書長。她在達累斯薩拉姆擁有一個很受歡迎的中餐廳。

Reuters was unable to reach the lawyer for Glan, who was not allowed to enter a plea until the case resumes.

路透社無法聯繫到楊鳳蘭的律師，在這起案件被起訴之前，律師是不能進行辯護的。

She is being held at the city's Segerea maximum security prison until an October 12 bail hearing. If convicted, she could face more than 20 years in jail.

目前，她被關押在最大的安全監獄--塞傑雷亞。關押期直到十月十二日的聽證會。一旦罪名成立，她將面臨20年以上的監禁。

The east African nation's elephant population shrank from 110,000 in 2009 to a little over 43,000 in 2014, according to a census released in June, with conservation groups blaming "industrial-scale" poaching.

根據六月份官方公佈的數據顯示，東非國家的大象數量在2009到2014的數量從110000減少到43000，而保護組織指責是“工業規模”的偷獵。

Demand for ivory from fast-growing Asian economies such as China and Vietnam, where it is turned into jewels and ornaments, has led to a spike in poaching across Africa.

對象牙的需求主要來自快速增長的亞洲經濟體，比如中國和越南。在那裏象牙被製造成珠寶和飾品，這也導致非洲的偷獵者數量達到了一個新的高峯。

The Elephant Action League, a US-based conservation group, said it believed Glan to be "the most notorious ivory trafficker brought to task so far".

總部設在美國的大象行動聯盟環保組織，表示楊鳳蘭是“到目前爲止最臭名昭著的象牙販子”。

"It's the news that we all have been waiting for, for years," Elephant Action League founder Andrea Crosta said in a statement.

“她得到了指控，這是我們期盼已久的消息” 大象行動聯盟的創建者Andrea Crosta在一次聲明中表示。

"We must put an end to the time of the untouchables if we want to save the elephant."

“如果我們想拯救更多的大象，我們必須抓緊時間去抓獲那些逍遙法外的人員。”