News
An Ivory trafficker arrested with 6 tusks
Ivory Coast, 18 May 2026An Ivory trafficker arrested with 6 elephant tusks and 2 hippo teeth. Great work of jean-Jacques, Maxime, Roxane and Annivk with the UCT special unit and wildlife authorities
4 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins
Congo, 18 May 20264 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins and a skull in Ewo. One is the personal driver of a high local authority and used his service car to transport contraband with impunity, another is a Christian “prophet” priest.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Togo, 16 May 2026An ivory trafficker arrested with two elephant tusks in Lome. He is a part of a trafficking ring stretching to Burkina Faso and Ghana.
2 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin
Uganda, 11 May 20262 traffickers arrested in Kampala with a fresh large leopard skin. They are a part of a vast network across the Western part of the country, working in complicity with some park rangers to expand their criminal business.
3 traffickers arrested, 710 kg pangolin scales
Cameroon, 5 May 20263 major traffickers arrested with 710Kg of pangolin scales representing more than 2,300 killed pangolins! The ring activated a network of poachers across neighbouring countries including Congo and Central African Republic.
Ofir Drori on how EAGLE Confronts the Criminal Networks Driving Africa’s Wildlife Crisis
30 Apr 2026Wildlife trafficking is one of the most lucrative and destructive criminal enterprises in the world. Valued at more than $20 billion annually, these criminal networks impact more than 4,000 plant and animal species across 162 countries and territories. Yet for decades enforcement efforts focused narrowly on poachers, missing the broader criminal foundation that makes the trade resilient: the corrupt officials, armed non-state actors, and agile transnational networks.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 8 elephant tusks and 52kg giant pangolin scales
Cameroon, 23 Apr 2026An ivory trafficker arrested with 8 elephant tusks and 52kg giant pangolin scales in Yaounde.
A trafficker arrested with 2 tusks
Ivory Coast, 3 Mar 2026An ivory trafficker arrested in Abidjan with two elephant tusks. Good work of Jean Jacque, Roxane, Maxime and Annick with the UCT special unit and MINEF.
An army Master Corporal arrested
Cameroon, 23 Jan 2026An army Master Corporal arrested in Yaounde with a leopard skin. He used his position to lend impunity to his trafficking activities and travelled more than 300km with the contraband through checkpoints just before his arrest.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 fresh leopard skins
Cameroon, 17 Dec 20252 traffickers arrested with 2 fresh leopard skins. One of the two arrested is a senior police officer that used his position to lend impunity to this Gabon-Cameroon trafficking ring.
3 arrested with 65 African Grey Parrots
Cameroon, 12 Dec 20253 traffickers arrested with 65 African Grey Parrots using the government car of a Divisional Officer to lend them impunity. One of them is the brother of this local authority, the other a Ghanaian with ties to other known transnational criminal networks.
An ivory trafficker arrested with a large tusk of more than 40kg
Togo, 29 Nov 2025An ivory trafficker arrested with a large tusk of more than 40kg, clamping down on Ghana-Togo border trafficking ring. He is connected to one of the biggest ivory traffickers the region.
