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2 ivory traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks.
Gabon, 4 Mar 20212 ivory traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
A customs official arrested with live mandrill
Cameroon, 26 Feb 2021A customs official arrested with a live mandrill. He was arrested in the South of the country, close to the border with Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. He travelled with the mandrill clinging on him, as he drove his car for over 40km to sell the animal.
5 traffickers arrested with 60 ivory tusks weighing 114 kg
Ivory Coast, 26 Feb 20215 traffickers arrested with 60 ivory tusks weighing 114 kg. They were arrested in the interior of the country close to the Ghana border in a very small room.
A trafficker arrested with 28 kg ivory
Congo, 22 Feb 2021A trafficker arrested with 8 tusks and 2 ivory pieces weighing 28kg. He transported the ivory on a motorbike to the capital city where he was arrested as he attempted to trade the contraband.
2 traffickers arrested with 2 tusks
Benin, 16 Feb 20212 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks. A third trafficker is on the run as the team fights to apprehend him.
3 ivory traffickers arrested with 166 pieces of sculpted ivory
Ivory Coast, 16 Feb 20213 ivory traffickers arrested with 166 pieces of sculpted ivory. The arrest was difficult because the Team had to do it at their shop in a busy part of the town.
3 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins
Gabon, 13 Feb 20213 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins in an intense sequence of arrests in a crackdown on this illegal trade. Great work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 tusks
Gabon, 11 Feb 20213 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks. One is a Guinean and the two others are Malians. Good work of Conservation Justice with the authorities.
A trafficker arrested with leopard skin
Senegal, 29 Jan 2021A wildlife trafficker arrested with a leopard skin. The trafficker works for the state organ that supports the national police.
2 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin
Senegal, 26 Jan 2021Two traffickers arrested with a leopard skin, 14 hippo teeth, and an AK-47 assault rifle that they attempted to trade.
2 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin
Congo, 4 Jan 20212 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin in the EAGLE network's first operation of 2021! Good work of PALF with the Congolese authorities
2 traffickers arrested with 2 pieces of ivory
Gabon, 15 Dec 20202 traffickers of Guinean and Burkina Faso nationalities arrested with ivory. Good work of conservation Justice with the authorities.
