IRISH TRAVELLER GYPSIES RESPONSIBLE FOR RHINO HORNS ILLEGAL GLOBAL NETWORK TRADE

DAILY MAIL:  Irish traveller family at the centre of global network that flooded market with illegal rhino horn worth millions.

 

Traveller family were major players in $10bn-a-year global rhino horn trade

Criminal network from Limerick, Ireland, spanned Europe, Asia and U.S.

Detectives from 34 countries were called in to crack the case

Major police operation finally closed the net on 'Rathkeale Rovers'

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533241/Irish-traveller-family-centre-global-network-flooded-market-illegal-rhino-horn-worth-millions.html



WHO ARE THE IRISH TRAVELLERS?

WIKIPEDIA - Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil) or Pavee, also called Tinkers or Gypsies (but not to be confused with the Romani people), are a traditionally itinerant people of ethnic Irish origin, who maintain a set of traditions.  Although predominantly English speaking, some also use Shelta and other similar cants.

They live mostly in Ireland as well as having large numbers in the United Kingdom and in the United States.  Around 10,000 people in the United States are descendants of Travellers who left Ireland, mostly during the period between 1845 and 1860 during the Great Famine.  About 2,500 of them live in Murphy Village, a community outside North Augusta, South Carolina

Land disputes

A complaint against Travellers in the United Kingdom is that of unauthorised Traveller sites being established on privately owned land or on council-owned land not designated for that purpose. Under the government's "Gypsy and Traveller Sites Grant", designated sites for Travellers' use are provided by the council, and funds are made available to local authorities for the construction of new sites and maintenance and extension of existing sites.

 

However, Travellers also frequently make use of other, non-authorised sites, including public "common land" and private plots such as large fields and other privately owned land. The Travellers claim that there is an under-provision of authorised sites – the Gypsy Council estimates an under-provision amounts to insufficient sites for 3,500 people.^[56] A famous example was Dale Farm in Essex.

READ MORE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers

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