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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.
A shipment from Brazil of highly endangered animals stopped
Togo, 24 Feb 2024A shipment from Brazil of highly endangered 12 Lear’s Macaws and 17 Golden Lion Tamarins on a sailing boat stopped and 5 traffickers arrested.
A fugitive ivory trafficker captured
Congo, 23 Feb 2024A fugitive ivory trafficker captured. He was wanted in connection to a past arrest operation. The team carried out multiple arrest attempts. Since the trafficker is very well connected with law enforcement, the arrest failed each time as he mysteriously disappeared before being captured. This time, after a year of efforts, he was finally apprehended. He first escaped an operation that took place in January 2023 and a trafficker was arrested with 2 elephant tusks. The trafficker was sentenced in January to 4 years in prison. The fugitive who escaped during that operation shall now face the full force of the law.
An ape trafficker arrested and a baby chimp rescued
Ivory Coast, 20 Feb 2024An ape trafficker arrested and a baby chimp rescued. The trafficker, who is known for his activities trafficked the chimp from Liberia and talked of complicity of local wildlife officials. He came by motorcycle with the chimpanzee strapped to his back, and managed to cross safely several roadblocks with the chimp visible.
3 traffickers arrested with 6 elephant tusks
Gabon, 12 Feb 20243 traffickers arrested with 6 elephant tusks weighing 33 kg. 2 traffickers were arrested with the elephant tusks and after an interrogation, they denounced 3 other traffickers. One was arrested and 2 others are searched fugitives. They are a part of a larger criminal network.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Congo, 31 Jan 20243 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks. One of the traffickers is the manager of the sawmill workshop of a logging company. They arrived in a taxi with the tusks concealed inside dresses in a backpack. On arrival, all three got out of the taxi and two made several phone calls while the third trudged behind, keeping cover and guard. The team pounced and arrested the two, while the trafficker on the watch for law enforcement fled and hid in an undergrowth but was soon arrested during a search that was quickly carried out.
2 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin
Congo, 19 Jan 20242 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin. They arrived the scene of transaction on a motorcycle with one of them firmly grasping a backpack containing a jute bag. On arrival, he removed the jute bag that concealed the leopard skin. He was arrested. He denounced another trafficker at the police station who was later apprehended. The trafficker who rode the motorcycle, had kept the engine running and he immediately fled when he saw the arrest taking place. Efforts to apprehend him are ongoing.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Gabon, 15 Jan 20243 traffickers, including a Malian national, arrested with 2 elephant tusks. Two traffickers were arrested attempting to sell two elephant tusks.
3 arrested attempting to trade an African Hawk-Eagle
Congo, 4 Dec 20233 arrested attempting to trade an African Hawk-Eagle in Pointe Noire. Good work of the Gendermerie and the PALF team. The eagle is receiving care from the Jane Goodall Institute.
a trafficker arrested with 7 elephant tusks
Congo, 3 Dec 2023Republic of Congo - a trafficker arrested with 7 elephant tusks. He is a priest and carried the ivory in a suitcase and a bag. He also concealed a hummer that was probably there for attack in case the deal goes wrong. very good work of Crepin and the rest of the PALF team with the authorities.
Smuggling of 40 primates stopped
Togo, 2 Dec 2023A shipment of 40 live primates locked in 3 crates, each divided to 10 tiny cells, left DRC and reached Togo on the way to its final destination, Thailand. After consultation with EAGLE, the CAAT at the Lome airport stopped the shipment
A trafficker arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Gabon, 29 Nov 2023A trafficker arrested with 2 elephant tusks. The Cameroonian national was arrested as he attempted to sell the polished tusks. He concealed the tusks in an old rice bag and used a cab to travel to the place of transaction. He was transferred to the Special Tribunal in charge of wildlife cases in Libreville and remanded in prison custody.