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.
坦桑尼亚一家法院近日指控被称为“象牙女王”的中国企业家。根据法庭文件显示，她被控领导象牙走私犯罪集团，走私超过350头大象的象牙。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.
杨凤兰，66岁，本周在坦桑尼亚的经济中心达累斯萨拉姆被抓获。从2000到2014年，她共走私了706件价值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.
据来自警方的消息，杨凤兰说斯瓦希里语，早在20世纪70年代以来就居住在东非国家，是坦桑尼亚中国非洲商业委员会的秘书长。她在达累斯萨拉姆拥有一个很受欢迎的中餐厅。
Reuters was unable to reach the lawyer for Glan, who was not allowed to enter a plea until the case resumes.
路透社无法联系到杨凤兰的律师，在这起案件被起诉之前，律师是不能进行辩护的。
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，她被关押在最大的安全监狱--塞杰雷亚。关押期直到十月十二日的听证会。一旦罪名成立，她将面临20年以上的监禁。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.
根据六月份官方公布的数据显示，东非国家的大象数量在2009到2014的数量从110000减少到43000，而保护组织指责是“工业规模”的偷猎。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.
对象牙的需求主要来自快速增长的亚洲经济体，比如中国和越南。在那里象牙被制造成珠宝和饰品，这也导致非洲的偷猎者数量达到了一个新的高峰。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".
总部设在美国的大象行动联盟环保组织，表示杨凤兰是“到目前为止最臭名昭著的象牙贩子”。"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，这是我们期盼已久的消息” 大象行动联盟的创建者Andrea Crosta在一次声明中表示。"We must put an end to the time of the untouchables if we want to save the elephant."
“如果我们想拯救更多的大象，我们必须抓紧时间去抓获那些逍遥法外的人员。”