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3 more arrested in Cameroon!
Cameroon, 28 May 2015This story starts like a joke - A guy enters a police station saying his ivory got stolen...
2 traffickers arrested
Cameroon, 27 May 2015After good arrests in Congo and Gabon, the Cameroon team continues with an arrest of two traffickers with 2 ape skulls and giant pangolin scales!
2 elephant poachers arrested
Gabon, 26 May 2015Two poachers arrested with two elephant tusks in Sam, North-Gabon in a collaboration between Conservation Justice and the Gabonese authorities.
The Benin team strikes an operation!
Benin, 30 Apr 20152 traffickers arrested with 200 pythons following an investigation into international illegal trade in live protected wildlife. AALF-B project of Nature Tropicale cooperated with the authorities on this action.
Two ivory traffickers arrested in Mekambo
Gabon, 21 Apr 2015Two ivory traffickers, a Gabonese national of Malian origin residing in Mekambo, and a Congolese, residing in the Mazingo village fell into the nets of the National Directorate of Documentation and Immigration of the Department of Zadie, assisted by the ANPN and the NGO Conservation Justice.
A baby chimp saved in Guinea again
Guinea, 17 Apr 2015Two traffickers were arrested and a baby chimp saved in Guinea.
Baby Chimp Rescued from Arrested Guinea Traffickers
Guinea, 17 Apr 2015Read the story of a baby chimp, who was saved from two poachers and traffickers, who killed her mother.
2 traffickers arrested in Yaounde with 4 gorilla skulls
Cameroon, 14 Apr 2015A suspected gorilla trafficker and his accomplice have been arrested in Bastos neighborhood in Yaounde in possession of 4 gorilla skulls.
20 skulls and skeletons of African Manatees seized
31 Mar 2015Good arrest in Togo by the authorities working with the TALFF project led by Fabrice Ebeh - A trafficker with 20 skulls and skeletons of West African Mantees was arrested
Two trafficers with four chimp skulls arrested
Cameroon, 24 Mar 2015Two ape traffickers arrested as they attempted to sell four chimpanzee skulls that they had collected from a poacher.
Al Jazeera article on ape trade crackdown
Cameroon, 5 Jan 2015For years, traffickers fuelled the slaughter of gorillas and chimpanzees in Cameroon's rainforests to meet demand for bush meat - an activity conservationists feared could wipe out the great apes in the wild in a few decades.
Two chimp traffickers arrested, baby chimp rescued
Guinea, 20 Dec 2014Great arrest operation in Guinea and a baby chimp rescued by the Interpol national bureau working with GALF.