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5 traffickers arrested with 3 elephant tusks
Ivory Coast, 28 Oct 20225 traffickers arrested with 3 elephant tusks. 4 traffickers were arrested attempting to sell 2 tusks at the outskirts of Abidjan. They denounced the brain behind the deal activating the others. When arrested he claimed to have stolen the tusks from his boss, who is a Lebanese national. Further investigations led to the seizure of a third ivory tusk.
4 traffickers arrested
Senegal, 28 Oct 20224 traffickers arrested in a collaboration between EAGLE Senegal and Panthera following the poaching of a lioness in the outskirts of a national park. An AK47, 2 hunting guns and a honey badger skin also seized.
2 traffickers arrested in Yaounde with 66kg Giant Pangolin scales
Cameroon, 15 Oct 20222 traffickers arrested in Yaounde with 66kg Giant Pangolin scales. One of the traffickers, a Nigerian, has been operating his ring for at least four years known to our investigations. Very good work of the LAGA team with the authorities.
3 traffickers arrested with 50 ivory statues, an elephant tail and 11 lion teeth
Togo, 13 Oct 20223 traffickers arrested with 50 ivory statues, an elephant tail and 11 lion teeth in a crackdown on a major criminal network. The Guinean and Liberian were arrested attempting to sell the ivory denouncing the third - a Senegalese wealthy owner of a jewellery shop, he confessed that lines of supply for the lion teeth to produce necklaces are from Ghana and Nigeria, while elephant tails lines to produce bracelets are from Cameroon.
3 traffickers arrested with 26.5kg of ivory
Gabon, 29 Sep 20223 traffickers arrested with 26.5kg of ivory. One of them is a repeat offender arrested 5 years ago before Gabon changed the low to a more deterring imprisonment. This time he will feel the difference ????
Two arrested with a mandrill
Cameroon, 27 Sep 2022Two arrested with a mandrill. The chained mandrill was put in a sack to be traded illegally. The mandrill was brought by a worker in a logging company near the Congolese border. Good work of the LAGA team with the authorities.
a trafficker arrested with two tusks
Gabon, 27 Sep 2022A trafficker arrested with two tusks. Similar to last arrest, he is a logging company worker. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
a trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins
Senegal, 23 Sep 2022A trafficker arrested with 2 leopard skins. The illegal trade in leopard skins is growing and a real threat to their survival. Also seized 2 crocodile skins.
a corrupt wildlife officer and 2 more ivory traffickers arrested with 2 tusks
Congo, 21 Sep 2022A corrupt wildlife officer and 2 more ivory traffickers arrested with 2 tusks. The wildlife officer of 15 years of service was violent during the arrest and even gave a scratch injury to a policemen in his fight.
3 traffickers arrested with almost 100 kg Ivory in a crackdown on a Nigerian ivory gang
Cameroon, 20 Sep 20223 traffickers arrested with almost 100 kg Ivory in a crackdown on a Nigerian ivory gang. The traffickers were arrested at the home of one them in Douala’s notorious New Bell neighbourhood.
4 traffickers arrested with two human skeletons.
Cameroon, 20 Sep 20224 traffickers arrested with two human skeletons. LAGA and the entire EAGLE Network, as activists, do our best to fight injustice.
A trafficker arrested and another mandrill rescued.
Congo, 14 Sep 2022Tiffany’s team hits again ! A trafficker arrested and another mandrill rescued.
