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2 ivory traffickers arrested with 11 tusks
Gabon, 23 Aug 20192 ivory traffickers were arrested with 11 tusks weighing 80 kg in the Gabon. They were arrested in the act shortly after they carried several bags with the contraband from a taxi to a hotel room. One of them is a long-term trafficker, the other one travelled the long way from the capital city to commit the crime. A hunting rifle of caliber 375 was found in the trafficker’s house. According to the new Gabon legislation, they are facing a sentence of 10 years in jail if judged in a special court in the capital.
2 traffickers arrested with two tusks
Burkina Faso, 31 Jul 20192 traffickers arrested with two tusks in the capital.
A trafficker arrested with 57 wild animals skins
Benin, 30 Jul 2019A trafficker arrested with 57 wild animals skins including 12 of threatened Sitatunga antelope.
3 traffickers arrested with lion and leopard skins
Senegal, 25 Jul 20193 traffickers arrested in two back to back operations with a lion skin, a leopard skin, 26 crocodile skins and other protected animals’ skins. Good work of EAGLE Senegal with authorities!
3 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins
Cameroon, 25 Jul 20193 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins. Good work of the LAGA team with the cameroon authorities.
4 traffickers arrested with 20 crocodile skins
Burkina Faso, 19 Jul 20194 traffickers arrested with 20 crocodile skins. Good work of EAGLE Burkina Faso with authorities.
3 ivory traffickers, one of them a local politician, arrested with two tusks
Benin, 27 Jun 20193 ivory traffickers, one of them a local politician, arrested with two tusks. Two of them were arrested in the act after they arrived with the contraband concealed in a backpack. They revealed a third trafficker, who entrusted them to sell the ivory. He was arrested the next day, he turned out to be an elected local chief.
3 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin
Congo, 22 Jun 2019PALF team hits again! 3 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin in the same town.
2 arrested with 20 kg ivory
Congo, 21 Jun 20192 arrested near the Gabonese border with 20 kg ivory. Photos from their phone shows some of the slaughter of elephants they generated.
A trafficker arrested with 100 kg pangolin scales
Cameroon, 20 Jun 2019A trafficker arrested in Douala with about 100 kg pangolin scales in a continued crackdown on the trafficking syndicate operating between Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
4 traffickers arrested with 22 kg of ivory
Gabon, 15 Jun 20194 traffickers arrested with 22 kg of ivory. One of them is a Ghana national. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
2 ivory traffickers arrested with 3 tusks
Benin, 13 Jun 20192 ivory traffickers arrested with three tusks.
