The leaders of a prolific Chinese wildlife trafficking gang have been pardoned in Malawi, sparking concern that renewed poaching will help spread diseases including coronaviruses. Lin Yunhua and his wife Qin Hua Zhang, who led the notorious Lin-Zhang syndicate that operated across southern Africa, were among 15 people sentenced to jail as part of a major crackdown on ivory trafficking. During their arrests in 2019, Lin and Zhang were found with elephant tusks, hippopotamus teeth and rhino horns that were traced to animals killed in Malawi's Liwonde National Park, where Prince Harry volunteered in 2016.