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2 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins
Ivory Coast, 13 Mar 20252 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins near the Ghana border. One of the traffickers is from Niger and the seizure included also more pieces of leopard skins, a hyena skin among many other wildlife trophies.
3 live animals traffickers arrested with 2 young live hyenas
Senegal, 27 Feb 20253 live animals traffickers arrested with 2 young live hyenas. They were ordered and captured with their mother that has already been traded away. The two were kept chained to a wall and fed only rice leftovers. Hyenas are targeted by the illegal trade as mystical animals for black magic.
2 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Cameroon, 6 Feb 20252 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks in Douala. One of them is a notorious regional trafficker at the center of criminal networks stretching to Chad, Congo and CAR.
2 traffickers arrested with 4 tusks
Ivory Coast, 24 Jan 20252 traffickers arrested with 4 tusks in the north of the country. They are a part of a ring trafficking Ivory from Burkina Faso. Good work of the EAGLE team with the UCT special unit and wildlife authorities.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 2 tusks
Congo, 16 Jan 2025An ivory trafficker arrested with 2 tusks. Good work of Crepin and Jules and the rest of the PALF team with the authorities.
3 ivory traffickers including a pastor arrested with 6 tusks
Cameroon, 18 Dec 20243 ivory traffickers including a pastor arrested with 6 tusks in Yaounde. The born again church pastor has been the mastermind of the ring and has gotten the tusks from a magistrate.
an ivory trafficker arrested with 3 tusks.
Congo, 30 Nov 2024An ivory trafficker arrested with 3 tusks. Good work of Crepin and Jules and the rest of the PALF team with the authorities.
4 major traffickers arrested in a crackdown on the notorious Koumassi criminal ring.
Ivory Coast, 29 Nov 20244 major traffickers arrested in Abidjan in a crackdown on the notorious Koumassi criminal ring. They were connected to two Asian criminal syndicates and supplied them with large quantities of ivory and pangolin scales.
3 ivory traffickers including two Gendarmerie officers arrested with three and half tusks
Cameroon, 13 Nov 20243 ivory traffickers including two Gendarmerie officers arrested with three and half tusks in a crackdown on corruption and complicity. One of the military officers resisted arrest violently making threats to the arresting force as he struggled.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks.
Ivory Coast, 9 Nov 20242 traffickers arrested in Soubre with 2 elephant tusks. The elephant was poached in the Tai National Park. Great work of JJ, Roxane, and Maxime with the UCT special unit and MINEF.
2 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins
Ivory Coast, 30 Oct 20242 traffickers arrested in Soubre with 4 leopard skins, 3 of which are young. The leopards were poached in the Tai National Park. Good work of Gaspard’s team with the UCT special unit and MINEF.
4 ivory traffickers arrested with 3 tusks weighing more than 50kg
Congo, 24 Oct 20244 ivory traffickers arrested with 3 tusks weighing more than 50kg. One of them is the head clerk of the high court of Dolisie who traded off illegally seized ivory from the court’s evidence room.
