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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.
2 traffickers arrested with 3 elephant tusks, 41 ivory statues, and 13 hippo teeth
Togo, 18 Oct 20242 traffickers arrested with 3 elephant tusks, 41 ivory statues, and 13 hippo teeth in Lome. The main trafficker, head of the company Art Primitive, is a known well-connected international ivory trafficker that has been using complicity and corruption to secure his impunity till now.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Ivory Coast, 16 Sep 20242 traffickers arrested in Abidjan with 2 elephant tusks. The main trafficker travelled from the north of country to trade the ivory in the capital. We believe that the elephant has been killed in Burkina Faso.
A trafficker arrested with a leopard skin
Congo, 25 Aug 2024A trafficker arrested with a leopard skin. The logging company worker travelled a large distance from the north end of the country. The illegal trade in leopard skins is decimating leopards at an alarming rate.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Cameroon, 21 Aug 20243 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks. Behind them a retired Colonel of the Ministry in charge of Wildlife that has also been in charge of several National Parks.
2 traffickers arrested with 81 kg scales of endagered giant pangolin & 24 nails
Congo, 10 Aug 20242 traffickers arrested with 81kg scales of endangered giant pangolins and 24 nails in the north of the country. One is a priest while the other is a worker contracted by city council to lay optic fibers around villages - both used their positions to trade in pangolin scales mainly with Chinese nationals.
5 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 huge elephant tusks
Ivory Coast, 31 Jul 20245 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 huge elephant tusks weighing over 60 kg. The traffickers were extremely careful pulling many tricks to avoid getting caught till their eventual arrest.
4 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks
Cameroon, 23 Jul 20244 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks. One of them is a forestry engineer working in a logging company. Another is an electromechanical engineer in a government ministry.
4 traffickers arrested with 11 tusks , 8 ivory pieces and 7 hippo teeth
Togo, 30 Jun 20244 traffickers arrested with 11 tusks , 8 ivory pieces and 7 hippo teeth in a crackdown on a cross-border trafficking ring. Two of the traffickers are Burkina Faso nationals and operated with the two others trafficking between the two countries.
A trafficker arrested with 3 lion skins
Uganda, 29 Jun 2024A trafficker arrested with 3 lion skins! She seems to specialize in lion parts trafficking and one of the skins is very fresh. This is a mere snapshot of an ongoing regular lion skins trafficking of this ring
