A major live-animals trafficker arrested as well as her international supplier

A major live-animals trafficker arrested as well as her international supplier, after a long-term high level investigation by Rens, Gaspard and their team.

Selling protected species for years and connected to several criminal syndicates in the West-African region, the trafficker has been arrested in her house while trading a baby chimp that was rescued.

Her phone revealed the supplier that we hunted for 4 years a part of a major trafficking crime family that has been elusive to us for long. Following surveillance, Rens and the team finally had the chance to arrest the first member of this Guinean family. With all the proof this time for chimpanzee trafficking, the team quickly moved with the UCT special unit against transnational organized crime to swiftly bust him next to his wildlife store.This important arrest operation marks a crackdown on the organized illegal trade in apes, lion cubs and other endangered species in a great cross-EAGLE effort!