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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.
2 traffickers arrested with 56kg ivory
Cameroon, 3 Sep 20222 traffickers arrested with 56kg ivory. These traffickers are linked to Abdoul Salami, arrested in 2021 with 2 tons of pangolin scales and leopard skins.
A man arrested with a slaughtered sea turtle and 123 eggs
Congo, 29 Aug 2022A man arrested with a slaughtered sea turtle and 123 eggs. The worker of a Chinese sea company was arrested in Pointe Noire by the Gendarmerie with follow up support of the PALF project.
5 traffickers arrested with two elephant tusks
Togo, 26 Aug 20225 traffickers arrested with two elephant tusks. Good work taking down a trafficking ring by Darius and his team with the Togolese authorities.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 12 elephant tusks
Gabon, 15 Aug 2022An ivory trafficker arrested with 12 elephant tusks. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
2 traffickers arrested with 122kg pangolin scales
10 Aug 20222 traffickers arrested with 122kg pangolin scales in Abidjan. One of them based in Liberia and the other in Ivory Coast as they developed a flourishing and growing illegal business generating the mass slaughter of pangolins.
