A trafficker arrested with two live young mandrills
Cameroon, 27 Apr 2018
A trafficker arrested in South Cameroon with two live young mandrills, which he had kept in a dilapidated and small cage at his residence. He had been keeping the female illegally for a couple of years and recently bought a male. He then decided to sell the two shortly before he was arrested. He was well known in the area for keeping protected species and had been given assurances by a corrupt wildlife officer that he could keep the mandrill without any fears.