8 traffickers arrested and 3 tons of pangolin scales seized

8 traffickers arrested and 3 tons of pangolin scales seized in a crackdown on an international trafficking network. The team, lead by the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, collaborated with the Ivorian forces on this action, carried out together with several other EAGLE teams from other countries. The young team showed high level of performance giving more hope for the fast development of our latest replication. Investigation continues on international links with at least 6 other countries including China. Some of the contraband was concealed in a primary school with the logic that such an innocent location would never be searched. Thousands of pangolins had to be killed for this shipment alone, and this criminal network was regularly carrying such a magnitude of pangolins' slaughter.