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Ofir Drori's presentation at the 19th COP of CITES
5 Dec 2022On the side-lines of the CITES 19th Conference of Parties that took place in Panama City, Ofir Drori did a presentation on fighting the illegal trade in primates during a side event that focused on how to stop the illegal trade in primates, organised by CATCA Environmental and Wildlife Society and the International Primate Protection League.
2 traffickers arrested with 180kg scales of giant pangolins
Cameroon, 29 Oct 20222 traffickers arrested with 180kg scales of giant pangolins. They smuggled the 7 sacks from the south of the country to Yaounde where they were arrested. Great work of the LAGA team with the authorities.
2 traffickers arrested in Yaounde with 66kg Giant Pangolin scales
Cameroon, 15 Oct 20222 traffickers arrested in Yaounde with 66kg Giant Pangolin scales. One of the traffickers, a Nigerian, has been operating his ring for at least four years known to our investigations. Very good work of the LAGA team with the authorities.
3 traffickers arrested with 50 ivory statues, an elephant tail and 11 lion teeth
Togo, 13 Oct 20223 traffickers arrested with 50 ivory statues, an elephant tail and 11 lion teeth in a crackdown on a major criminal network. The Guinean and Liberian were arrested attempting to sell the ivory denouncing the third - a Senegalese wealthy owner of a jewellery shop, he confessed that lines of supply for the lion teeth to produce necklaces are from Ghana and Nigeria, while elephant tails lines to produce bracelets are from Cameroon.
3 traffickers arrested with 26.5kg of ivory
Gabon, 29 Sep 20223 traffickers arrested with 26.5kg of ivory. One of them is a repeat offender arrested 5 years ago before Gabon changed the low to a more deterring imprisonment. This time he will feel the difference ????
Two arrested with a mandrill
Cameroon, 27 Sep 2022Two arrested with a mandrill. The chained mandrill was put in a sack to be traded illegally. The mandrill was brought by a worker in a logging company near the Congolese border. Good work of the LAGA team with the authorities.
a trafficker arrested with two tusks
Gabon, 27 Sep 2022A trafficker arrested with two tusks. Similar to last arrest, he is a logging company worker. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
a trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins
Senegal, 23 Sep 2022A trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins. The illegal trade in leopard skins is growing and a real threat to their survival. Also seized 2 crocodile skins.
a corrupt wildlife officer and 2 more ivory traffickers arrested with 2 tusks
Congo, 21 Sep 2022A corrupt wildlife officer and 2 more ivory traffickers arrested with 2 tusks. The wildlife officer of 15 years of service was violent during the arrest and even gave a scratch injury to a policemen in his fight.
3 traffickers arrested with almost 100 kg Ivory in a crackdown on a Nigerian ivory gang
Cameroon, 20 Sep 20223 traffickers arrested with almost 100 kg Ivory in a crackdown on a Nigerian ivory gang. The traffickers were arrested at the home of one them in Douala’s notorious New Bell neighbourhood.
4 traffickers arrested with two human skeletons.
Cameroon, 20 Sep 20224 traffickers arrested with two human skeletons. LAGA and the entire EAGLE Network, as activists, do our best to fight injustice.
A trafficker arrested and another mandrill rescued.
Congo, 14 Sep 2022Tiffany’s team hits again ! A trafficker arrested and another mandrill rescued.