4 ivory traffickers arrested with 3 tusks weighing more than 50kg, Congo, 24 Oct 2024

2 traffickers arrested with 3 elephant tusks, 41 ivory statues, and 13 hippo teeth, Togo, 18 Oct 2024

2 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks, Ivory Coast, 16 Sep 2024

A trafficker arrested with a leopard, Congo, 25 Aug 2024

3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks, Cameroon, 21 Aug 2024

The EAGLE Network (Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement) is leading the fight against wildlife crime with more than 2,000 significant wildlife traffickers jailed to date, fighting corruption to break complicity and ensure justice.

EAGLE developed a model of working with governments on Investigations, Arrest operations, Legal follow up and Media activities to get the law applied.

A large part of the work of EAGLE’s activists is in fighting corruption - we detect corruption in 85% of our arrest operations, and in 80% of our cases in court. We are not just detecting corruption, our role is to fight these corruption attempts. The approach received good backing from governments wishing to fight corruption within its services.

The model of EAGLE started in Cameroon and is now replicated in eight countries that form a network, and shifted countries from zero wild life prosecutions to a rate of one major trafficker arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned per week.

The model of EAGLE and its innovation in the fight against corruption and its integration into conservation has landed it 7 international awards to date.

The over-arching objective of the EAGLE Network is: To developing civic activism and collaborate with governments and civil society to improve the application of national and international environmental legislation through a program of activities: investigations, arrests, prosecutions and publicity. Through this, EAGLE aims to generate a strong deterrent against the illegal trade in wildlife, timber and related criminal activities, including corruption.

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InvestigationsInvestigations
To investigate and infiltrate criminal networks, identifying major wildlife traffickers and obtaining the required evidence against them
Arrest OperationsArrest Operations
to bring about the arrests of major wildlife traffickers at a rate of one per week per country
Legal Follow-upLegal Follow-up
to ensure the prosecution of significant wildlife traffickers, including the conviction and serving of deterring sentences.
Media ExposureMedia Exposure
to create deterrent by raising public awareness of the increased enforcement of wildlife laws and the risks and penalties for wildlife criminals
DeterrentDeterrent
The media channels inform the public that the law has been actively enforced, thereby providing public education on the change in enforcement increasing the deterrent and criminalizing the illegal trade in endangered wildlife.
Crackdown on a Vietnamese Ivory Criminal Syndicate

Crackdown on a Vietnamese Ivory Criminal Syndicate

On 18th January 2018, the EAGLE Network and the government of Ivory Coast began the coordination of Operation “Ivory Stops at Ivory Coast”, a crackdown on an international ivory trafficking network. The leader, a Vietnamese national, was arrested in Abidjan with five other members of his network, a criminal syndicate that has been operating for years in at least seven different countries and is estimated to have generated the slaughter of tens of thousands of elephants for their tusks. Last week’s arrests led to the confiscation of 478 kg ivory, over half a ton of pangolin scales, some packed and ready for export, four illegal handguns, leopard parts, 7 cutting and carving machines and more contraband. The head of the criminal organization in Cote d’Ivoire is directly linked to two prior seizures, one in Vietnam and another in Cambodia, where 619 kg and 941 kg of Ivory seized by authorities, respectively.
The Story of the Chimpanzees

The Story of the Chimpanzees

Since LAGA started its operation in 2003 more than 30 chimpanzees were rescued by EAGLE Network. First of them were in Cameroon, but later many were saved in Guinea and some in Gabon and Congo. Here you can see photos of most of them.
Ivory trafficking and Poaching

Ivory trafficking and Poaching

A hard-hitting documentary on ConservationJustice’s work to combat ivory trafficking was launched. Maxime Ginolin, an activist and a French film maker, and his partner Guillaume Martinez, cameraman, editor and composer, released the documentary that captures the impressive fieldwork to bring down the lucrative and far-reaching illegal ivory trade and reveals the underbelly of international trafficking.
Crisis in Africa

Crisis in Africa

The EAGLE Network is leading the fight against wildlife crime with more than 1,000 major wildlife traffickers jailed to date, fighting corruption to break complicity and ensure justice.
Congo - PALF

Congo - PALF

PALF project was launched in the Republic of Congo in 2008 by Luc Mathot through The Aspinall Foundation with the support of LAGA that started its replication activities following special missions carried out by the LAGA Director another senior LAGA member.
Gaspard Julien-laferrière

Gaspard Julien-laferrière

In May 2021, Gaspard Julien-laferrière has been appointed the new Coordinator of EAGLE Côte d’Ivoire. During the years in Guinea, where he was taking care of chimpanzees in Chimpanzees Conservation Center, he learned about EAGLE Network and after going through an intensive training he was sent in the project in Côte d’Ivoire in 2019 to assist the Coordinator