Masai giraffe calves and other juvenile African wildlife are being exported from Tanzania to the Sharjah Safari in Al Dhaid in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the pleasure of Dubai royalty and tourists. Human Rights Watch reports that the shooting and capture of animals, including the endangered Masai giraffe, and their transfer to Dubai are part of a long-running syndicate between successive Tanzanian governments and the Otterlo (sometimes Ortello) Business Corporation (OBC). This syndicate has been active since Ali Hassan Mwinyi’s presidency in the 1980s and 1990s. Institute for Security Studies Researcher Nicodemus Minde said there were deep-rooted connections between the Tanzanian political elite and UAE ruling class in facilitating hunting concessions that have violated Tanzania’s wildlife laws. He linked senior members of Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and UAE royalty, who had been accused of poaching and transporting live animals to Dubai. The Masai giraffe, Tanzania’s national animal, was originally at the centre of Loliondogate - a scandal that broke in 2017 in which hunting concessions were given to specific hunting companies, violating several laws. The biggest recipient of these concessions was OBC, which registered as a foreign company in Tanzania under the trade name Royal Safaris Conservation in 1992.