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An army Master Corporal arrested with a leopard skin
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 traffickers 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.
An international ivory trafficker arrested with 107 Ivory pieces and 2 tusks in Dakar
Senegal, 14 Nov 2025An international ivory trafficker arrested with 107 Ivory pieces and 2 tusks in Dakar. The trafficker was hiding and masking the ivory in his shop and confessed he has been trading ivory for 30 years.
An ape trafficker arrested and a baby chimp rescued
Congo, 28 Oct 2025An ape trafficker arrested and a baby chimp rescued. Good work of Crepin, Jules, Evariste, Abraham and Roderlin with the authorities. He will receive lifetime care by JGI.
2 traffickers arrested with 32kg ivory
Ivory Coast, 9 Sep 20252 traffickers arrested with 32kg ivory. The ivory, concealed in a rice sack, was trafficked from Liberia. The Burkina Faso National trafficker denounced the other for being a known big ivory trafficker.
A trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins, and 30kg scales of endangered giant pangolin
Congo, 27 Aug 2025A trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins, and 30kg scales of endangered giant pangolin in the north of the country. Good work of Crepin, Evariste and Romeo with the authorities.
2 traffickers arrested with more than 70kg Giant Pangolin scales
Cameroon, 3 Jul 20252 traffickers arrested with more than 70kg Giant Pangolin scales. This seizure represents the slaughter of at least 35 individuals of this rare and declining species.
3 ivory traffickers arrested with a large tusk
Togo, 6 Jun 20253 ivory traffickers arrested with a large tusk in a crackdown on Ghana-Togo trafficking ring. Great work of Darius, and the team with the BRI and wildlife authorities.
3 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin, and 28kg scales of endangered giant pangolin
Congo, 28 May 20253 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin, and 28kg scales of endangered giant pangolin in the north of the country. Good work of Crepin, Evariste and Romeo with the authorities.
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.
