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Ofir Drori: The Protector of Wildlife
8 May 2025He's writing his own "Jungle Book": a great novel of adventures and struggles for animals. In 2003, this 48-year-old Israeli founded the first NGO specializing in the enforcement of species protection laws in Africa. His uncompromising method: investigating, infiltrating networks, and thwarting the traps of corruption to bring traffickers to justice. He has secured nearly 3,000 convictions in twenty years. Now, Ofir and his teams are leading the offensive in seven countries. In Cameroon, Uganda, Senegal, Togo, Ivory Coast, Congo, and Guinea, they are raising awareness and creating vocations in their passion: poacher hunting.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 leopard skins
Congo, 24 Mar 20252 traffickers arrested with 2 leopard skins. The illegal trade is threatening the survival of the leopard, especially in central and west Africa where we believe a silent race to extinction is going below conservationists’ radar.
2 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins
Ivory Coast, 13 Mar 20252 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins near the Ghana border. One of the traffickers is from Niger and the seizure included also more pieces of leopard skins, a hyena skin among many other wildlife trophies.
3 live animals traffickers arrested with 2 young live hyenas
Senegal, 27 Feb 20253 live animals traffickers arrested with 2 young live hyenas. They were ordered and captured with their mother that has already been traded away. The two were kept chained to a wall and fed only rice leftovers. Hyenas are targeted by the illegal trade as mystical animals for black magic.
2 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Cameroon, 6 Feb 20252 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks in Douala. One of them is a notorious regional trafficker at the center of criminal networks stretching to Chad, Congo and CAR.
2 traffickers arrested with 4 tusks
Ivory Coast, 24 Jan 20252 traffickers arrested with 4 tusks in the north of the country. They are a part of a ring trafficking Ivory from Burkina Faso. Good work of the EAGLE team with the UCT special unit and wildlife authorities.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 2 tusks
Congo, 16 Jan 2025An ivory trafficker arrested with 2 tusks. Good work of Crepin and Jules and the rest of the PALF team with the authorities.
3 ivory traffickers including a pastor arrested with 6 tusks
Cameroon, 18 Dec 20243 ivory traffickers including a pastor arrested with 6 tusks in Yaounde. The born again church pastor has been the mastermind of the ring and has gotten the tusks from a magistrate.
an ivory trafficker arrested with 3 tusks.
Congo, 30 Nov 2024An ivory trafficker arrested with 3 tusks. Good work of Crepin and Jules and the rest of the PALF team with the authorities.
4 major traffickers arrested in a crackdown on the notorious Koumassi criminal ring.
Ivory Coast, 29 Nov 20244 major traffickers arrested in Abidjan in a crackdown on the notorious Koumassi criminal ring. They were connected to two Asian criminal syndicates and supplied them with large quantities of ivory and pangolin scales.
3 ivory traffickers including two Gendarmerie officers arrested with three and half tusks
Cameroon, 13 Nov 20243 ivory traffickers including two Gendarmerie officers arrested with three and half tusks in a crackdown on corruption and complicity. One of the military officers resisted arrest violently making threats to the arresting force as he struggled.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks.
Ivory Coast, 9 Nov 20242 traffickers arrested in Soubre with 2 elephant tusks. The elephant was poached in the Tai National Park. Great work of JJ, Roxane, and Maxime with the UCT special unit and MINEF.
