4 traffickers arrested with 28 African grey parrots
Cameroon, 7 Dec 2022
4 traffickers arrested with 28 African grey parrots. The crackdown dismantled a ring of parrot traffickers operating in the East of the country. They transported the parrots, crammed tight in a small wooden cage, in a vehicle to the place of transaction. They were arrested as they attempted to sell the parrots. They were leading a ring of local poachers who captured live African grey parrots. They also sold parrots to some notorious parrot trafficking networks in Yaounde and farther afield. Several parrots were sold by the traffickers during the period of the investigations that took a couple of months.