5 traffickers arrested with 60 ivory tusks weighing 114 kg

5 traffickers arrested with 60 ivory tusks weighing 114 kg. They were arrested in the interior of the country close to the Ghana border in a very small room. The traffickers violently attacked the arresting force and continued to resist even as they were handcuffed. The tusks were of mostly very young elephants and some were fresh with blood stains showing the elephants were recently massacred. The 30 slaughtered elephants in the seizure are a mere snapshot of the regular decimation of elephants generated by this illegal network The trafficking ring was very organized with shared roles. 3 of the traffickers, of Burkina Faso nationality, had the task of smuggling the ivory from Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso to the Ivorian border where the contraband was stored. Two others, Ivorians, were in charge of the financing and trade in the country.