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3 major traffickers arrested with 710Kg of 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.
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.
