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3 ivory traffickers arrested
Uganda, 2 Mar 2016Three Ivory traffickers arrested in Uganda! Vincent Opyene took the team to catch two of them with the police. During interrogation, their phone rang as their collaborator asked for the money from the deal. He was then lured and arrested. The traffickers took the team to one of the killed elephants - inside the Karuma reserve!
A bird trafficker with 2 Crested Cranes arrested
Uganda, 28 Feb 2016EAGLE Uganda internet investigation resulted in an arrest of a birds trafficker with three Crowned Cranes - an endangered bird that is also the national symbol of Uganda.
4 wildlife traffickers arrested
Benin, 25 Feb 2016Four traffickers arrested in Benin with a shocking number of animal parts including Ivory, 15 threatened sitatunga skins, elephants bones and trunk, 10 civet skins and more.
A trafficker arrested with two tusks
Uganda, 23 Feb 2016A trafficker arrested in Uganda with two tusks
5 ivory traffickers behind bars
Benin, 18 Feb 20165 traffickers, one of them former Head of the Gendarmerie, with 4 tusks were arrested in a joint operation of Judicial Police, wildlife officers and AALF-B. This was the first operation of AALF-B at the north-east end of the country in W National Park. The legal team is working hard to keep all of the traffickers behind bars.
3 ivory traffickers arrested with 5.3 kg of ivory
Senegal, 10 Feb 20163 ivory traffickers were arrested in the centre of Dakar, Senegal, in a joint operation of the Brigade of Urban Security and SALF. The 3 dealers brought their contraband from their carved Ivory workshop to a restaurant, where they were arrested red handed during an attempt to sell 271 (!) pieces of elephant ivory.
3 ape meat traffickers with 106 kg of meat arrested
Guinea, 9 Feb 20163 ape meat traffickers with 106 kg of meat were arrested in Guinea.
Two traffickers arrested with 9 ape skulls
Cameroon, 9 Feb 2016Two traffickers arrested with 9 ape skulls - 4 gorillas and 5 chimps, and a live crocodile.
A trafficker arrested with ivory and pangolin scales
Cameroon, 9 Feb 2016A Nigerian trafficker arrested with 12 elephant tusks and about 200kg of giant pangolin scales! Nancy keeps on the legal follow up as Serge moves fast to try another operation in a different town.
4 leopard skin traffickers arrested
Gabon, 1 Feb 2016Only 5 days after arresting the ivory traffickers with 44 kg of ivory in the same town 4 traffickers were arrested trying to sell 2 leopard skins.
3 cybercriminals were arrested
Cameroon, 31 Jan 20163 cybercriminals were arrested after advertising for sale two lion cubs and two cheetah cubs through the internet.
Notorious trafficker arrested with a leopard skin
Uganda, 27 Jan 2016A trafficker arrested with a leopard skin, the head of a gang of traffickers, killing wildlife in Kidepo Valley National Park and terrorizing the rangers there.
