5 traffickers arrested with 126 African grey parrots

5 traffickers arrested with 126 African grey parrots in a crackdown on a transnational live animals trafficking ring in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. 2 traffickers arrested with 115 parrots including 110 African grey parrots in Abidjan. One of them is a Senegalese national who was arrested while attempting to sell 91 African grey parrots in Abidjan. He denounced the supplier, an Ivorian national, who was stocking the birds in his hidden aviary. Raiding the quarantine, more evidence was found on the vast stretch and magnitude of the ring and its connection to ape trafficking. 3 cape parrots trafficked from South Africa were also recovered.

3 traffickers arrested with 11 timneh parrots in Dakar. The operation was part of a long and meticulous investigation that led to the arrest of 2 traffickers in Abidjan including a Senegalese national with 115 African grey parrots. The house of the Senegalese trafficker in Dakar was searched and 3 traffickers were arrested with 11 timneh parrots.