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2 ivory traffickers arrested in Brazzaville with 2 tusks
Congo, 31 May 20242 ivory traffickers arrested in Brazzaville with 2 tusks. Good work of the PALF team with the authorities.
A trafficker from Burkina Faso arrested with two elephant tusks
Togo, 31 May 2024A trafficker from Burkina Faso arrested with two elephant tusks in Lome. He is a government worker trafficking ivory cross-border in collaboration with his boss.
2 Guinean traffickers arrested with a leopard skin, hyena skin, and two serval skins
Senegal, 24 May 20242 Guinean traffickers arrested with a leopard skin, hyena skin, and two serval skins in an action against cross border trafficking between the two countries.
2 traffickers arrested with 7 elephant tusks
Congo, 7 May 20242 traffickers arrested with 7 elephant tusks and a leopard skin. A house search recovered a gorilla skull as well. Good work of Jules, Crepin and the team with the authorities in Pointe-Noire.
A Chinese national arrested in a glass eels trafficking crackdown
Senegal, 30 Apr 2024A Chinese national arrested in a glass eels trafficking crackdown in an exceptional France-Senegal collaboration. A French delegation led by an investigating judge arrived Senegal to investigate the African side of an international trafficking ring in the protected European glass eels.
2 traffickers arrested with body parts of 2 killed gorillas
Cameroon, 30 Apr 20242 traffickers arrested with body parts of 2 killed gorillas. The parts that included heads and limbs had blood still dripping indicating the gorillas were recently killed. The two were specialised in poaching and trafficking in great apes. Due to corruption, the two disappeared right after a jail visit that was done by the Legal Team on the ground. They were reported to have “escaped”. The hunt is ongoing and the corruption incident is under investigations.
A leopard skin trafficker arrested
Ivory Coast, 29 Apr 2024A leopard skin trafficker arrested with several pieces of wildlife and a rifle. Following the arrest of two leopard skin traffickers last month, follow up investigations led to his arrest. During the operation, he physically resisted arrest but was quickly subdued. He is the supplier of wildlife contraband to several other traffickers. He was arrested close to the Tai National Park.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 leopard skins and 5 kg of pangolin scales
Congo, 4 Apr 20242 traffickers arrested with 2 leopard skins and 5 kg of pangolin scales. Good work of the PALF team with the authorities.
A trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins
Ivory Coast, 14 Mar 2024A trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins, probably a mother and a cub. The trafficker stored the skins in the house of a traditional chief in an attempt to get impunity. The trafficker worked with several poachers who supplied him with rare animal products. They drove to the place of transaction with the skins concealed inside the car.
3 traffickers arrested with 6 pieces of elephant tusks and a leopard skin
Gabon, 11 Mar 20243 traffickers arrested with 6 pieces of elephant tusks and a leopard skin. Two traffickers were arrested with the elephant tusks and a third who was not too far away was arrested soon after. The elephant tusk, weighing 12kg, were cut into pieces and concealed in a sports bag. The traffickers were arrested while attempting to sell the tusks.
4 traffickers, including a veteran soldier, arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Ivory Coast, 8 Mar 20244 traffickers, including a veteran soldier, arrested with 2 elephant tusks weighing 42 kg. They used a motorcycle to transport the elephant tusks that were stored in a nearby village. The traffickers were intending to use the profit from the deal to generate the killing of elephants in the Tai National Park. The operation took place close to the Park which is the biggest contiguous rainforest of West Africa. From several indications the tusks were from an adult elephant slaughtered in the park that has an estimated population of 300 elephants. Elephants, the country's emblem, are on the brink of extinction in the country: their numbers have halved in thirty years. Immediately, after the operation the Team travelled to another town for a leopard skin trafficking operation.
4 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Togo, 29 Feb 20244 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks weighing more than 30 kg. Hundreds of small chips and pieces of ivory from several last deals were seized. The tusks originated from Cameroon. The contraband was concealed inside a grains bag and hidden in cab which they took to the place of transaction. They positioned themselves all over the place to keep guard and watch out for law enforcement as they attempted to sell the ivory.
