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3 traffickers arrested with 6 elephant tusks
Gabon, 12 Feb 20243 traffickers arrested with 6 elephant tusks weighing 33 kg. 2 traffickers were arrested with the elephant tusks and after an interrogation, they denounced 3 other traffickers. One was arrested and 2 others are searched fugitives. They are a part of a larger criminal network.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Congo, 31 Jan 20243 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks. One of the traffickers is the manager of the sawmill workshop of a logging company. They arrived in a taxi with the tusks concealed inside dresses in a backpack. On arrival, all three got out of the taxi and two made several phone calls while the third trudged behind, keeping cover and guard. The team pounced and arrested the two, while the trafficker on the watch for law enforcement fled and hid in an undergrowth but was soon arrested during a search that was quickly carried out.
2 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin
Congo, 19 Jan 20242 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin. They arrived the scene of transaction on a motorcycle with one of them firmly grasping a backpack containing a jute bag. On arrival, he removed the jute bag that concealed the leopard skin. He was arrested. He denounced another trafficker at the police station who was later apprehended. The trafficker who rode the motorcycle, had kept the engine running and he immediately fled when he saw the arrest taking place. Efforts to apprehend him are ongoing.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Gabon, 15 Jan 20243 traffickers, including a Malian national, arrested with 2 elephant tusks. Two traffickers were arrested attempting to sell two elephant tusks.
3 arrested attempting to trade an African Hawk-Eagle
Congo, 4 Dec 20233 arrested attempting to trade an African Hawk-Eagle in Pointe Noire. Good work of the Gendermerie and the PALF team. The eagle is receiving care from the Jane Goodall Institute.
a trafficker arrested with 7 elephant tusks
Congo, 3 Dec 2023Republic of Congo - a trafficker arrested with 7 elephant tusks. He is a priest and carried the ivory in a suitcase and a bag. He also concealed a hummer that was probably there for attack in case the deal goes wrong. very good work of Crepin and the rest of the PALF team with the authorities.
Smuggling of 40 primates stopped
Togo, 2 Dec 2023A shipment of 40 live primates locked in 3 crates, each divided to 10 tiny cells, left DRC and reached Togo on the way to its final destination, Thailand. After consultation with EAGLE, the CAAT at the Lome airport stopped the shipment
A trafficker arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Gabon, 29 Nov 2023A trafficker arrested with 2 elephant tusks. The Cameroonian national was arrested as he attempted to sell the polished tusks. He concealed the tusks in an old rice bag and used a cab to travel to the place of transaction. He was transferred to the Special Tribunal in charge of wildlife cases in Libreville and remanded in prison custody.
2 traffickers arrested with 6 pieces of ivory
Congo, 25 Nov 20232 traffickers arrested with 6 pieces of ivory. They were violent and injured a law enforcement officer during the arrest. The ivory pieces were securely tied together and hidden in a backpack that was concealed inside a cab which one of them took to the place of transaction. They carried out a thorough inspection of the area. The operation team moved in and arrested them when they attempted to sell the ivory. One of the traffickers who watched from afar as the operation team zeroed in on the others, fled. Efforts are underway to arrest him.
A primate trafficker arrested and a drill rescued
Cameroon, 22 Nov 2023A primate trafficker arrested and a drill rescued. The very young drill, an endangered primate, stressed and agitated, was tied with a rope in the waist. The trafficker, who works for a city council, transported the cage with the drill on his bike. He was waiting for another supply of a baby primate that was killed when local poachers shot dead its mother.
A major ivory trafficker arrested
Senegal, 21 Nov 2023A major trafficker arrested in Dakar with 2 elephant tusks and 80 carved ivory items in a crackdown on a transnational trafficking ring. The seizure included also 18 leopard teeth and many wild animal skins. The contraband was hidden in plastic bags that were kept inside a rice bag. The bag was concealed in the boot of a cab that transported him to the place of transaction where he was arrested.
2 ape traffickers arrested and a baby chimp rescued
Ivory Coast, 20 Nov 20232 ape traffickers arrested and a baby chimp rescued in a crackdown on a transnational criminal network. This criminal network was trafficking apes from Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea to China and to countries of the Arab Gulf. It applied similar modus operandi to previously dismantled networks in Guinea. Apes were smuggled under the cover of a legal business of live animals and connections with some of the biggest ape traffickers known in Africa are being investigated.
