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3 traffickers arrested with 12 elephant tusks
Gabon, 29 May 20233 traffickers, including a Burkinabe national, arrested with 12 elephant tusks. The Burkinabe arrived the scene of transaction on a red motorbike, unloaded a cardboard box carefully wrapped in adhesive tape from the motorbike’s luggage rack. The box contained another bag where 12 ivory tusks were concealed. He was arrested shortly afterwards and he denounced another trafficker who was arrested a couple of hours later. They both denounced the third trafficker, a village chief. He was arrested 2 days later.
3 traffickers arrested with 78 kg of pangolin scales
Cameroon, 9 May 20233 traffickers arrested with 78 kg of pangolin scales. They were cautious, tried a number of tricks and came around without the pangolin scales to the place of transaction. They mixed up the scales and parked it in a single bag that was transported on a motorbike. They were very knowledgeable in the illegal business and did everything they could to avoid arrest.
5 traffickers arrested with 126 African grey parrots
Ivory Coast, Senegal, 18 Apr 20235 traffickers arrested with 126 African grey parrots in a crackdown on a transnational live animals trafficking ring in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.
A trafficker arrested with 55 kg of pangolin scales
Cameroon, 16 Apr 2023A trafficker arrested with 55 kg of pangolin scales. He travelled 41 km with the bag of pangolins scales strapped to his motorcycle. He was arrested when he arrived at the scene of transaction and attempted to sell the pangolin scales. The operation came at the end of a long investigation that tracked and monitored the pangolins trafficker who is experienced in the illegal business. He activated a host of small traffickers in several villages, who supplied him with pangolins scales.
4 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks
Gabon, 7 Apr 20234 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authurities.
4 traffickers arrested with 21 tusks and 13 ivory statues
Togo, 18 Mar 20234 traffickers arrested with 21 tusks and 13 ivory statues and skins of a lion and a leopard. The arrest operation seizing 167 kg ivory was a hard one as the traffickers were extremely careful. One that tried to escape was captured in a good teamwork. The contraband was concealed in 2 grains bags found inside the boot of a vehicle.
5 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks
Gabon, 14 Mar 20235 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks. They were arrested during their attempts at selling the elephant tusks. 4 traffickers were arrested when they arrived the scene of transaction in a car transporting the ivory. During interrogations they denounced one more trafficker who was also arrested.
A fugitive trapped and arrested to serve his 5 years sentence
Congo, 13 Mar 2023A convicted trafficker who was sentenced to 5 years in prison in April 2022 and never returned following his release on bail during the trial, was arrested. He had been evading authorities who went all the way out with the Team’s assistance to arrest him. He shall complete his full sentence in prison. This sends a strong message to traffickers that they will be pursued and the law will be applied.
Ivory trafficking and Poaching
Gabon, 9 Mar 2023A hard-hitting documentary on ConservationJustice’s work to combat ivory trafficking was launched. Maxime Ginolin, an activist and a French film maker, and his partner Guillaume Martinez, cameraman, editor and composer, released the documentary that captures the impressive fieldwork to bring down the lucrative and far-reaching illegal ivory trade and reveals the underbelly of international trafficking.
3 traffickers arrested with 11 elephant tusks
Ivory Coast, 28 Feb 20233 traffickers arrested with 11 elephant tusks. 2 of them traffickers the ivory from the west of the country collaborated with the third trafficker in Abidjan who stocked the ivory and harbored them. He equally concealed the ivory at his place and participated in the making of the deal as they were swiftly arrested while attempting to sell the elephants tusks.
A trafficker arrested with a leopard skin
Senegal, 22 Feb 2023A trafficker arrested with a leopard skin and other contraband. The Burkina Faso national is also involved in gold trafficking in Mali. He activated several cross-border trafficking networks. He was arrested with a suitcase concealing a leopard skin, serval and crocodile skins and head, and hyena skin and head
2 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Gabon, 19 Feb 20232 ivory traffickers, one a Ghana national, arrested with 2 elephant tusks. A Gabonese was arrested with 2 elephant tusks and he immediately denounced the other trafficker, a Ghanaian, who concealed the elephant tusks at his premises. The Gabonese is known to the police for the illegal trade in an endemic shrub known for its psychoactive effects and regulated by the law. A search found a good quantity of this shrub at his home. He arrived the scene of transaction by car with the ivory concealed in the boot of the vehicle.
