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3 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin and skull
Congo, 31 Aug 20203 traffickers arrested with a leopard skin and skull in Western part of the country. They transported the contraband to a nearby town well concealed in a bag, to be arrested in the act. The well experienced long-term traffickers now remain behind bars, awaiting trial.
A trafficker arrested with 23kg of pangolin scales
Cameroon, 26 Aug 2020A trafficker arrested in the South of the country with 23kg of pangolin scales. He travelled to the place of transaction at night with the scales concealed in a bag. He belongs to a local network, which activated small-scale traffickers, collecting the scales in surrounding villages. Pangolins trafficking and trade is still on the rise despite the global health situation facing Covid-19 believed to have leaped to humans through pangolins as well.
3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks
Gabon, 25 Aug 20203 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks in the West of the country. The first two, one Senegalese and one Nigerian, were arrested while they tried to sell the tusks, carefully concealed in a television cardboard box. After arrival to the police station they denounced a third trafficker, also a Nigerian, who was arrested a few hours later.
3 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins
Gabon, 11 Aug 20203 traffickers arrested with 3 leopard skins. The first one, a woman of Benin nationality was arrested in the act, during an attempt to sell the skins on a market in capital city. She concealed the contraband in a yellow plastic bag to evade law enforcement. Later she denounced two other traffickers, one of them a Cameroonian, who were arrested a week later.
Two traffickers arrested with a lion skin and a leopard skin
Cameroon, 11 Aug 2020Two traffickers arrested with a lion skin and a leopard skin! Lions were once in found in three continents but since pushed out from 94% of their historical range. There are less than a mere 25,000 Lions left and in the past 25 years more than half of the lions' populations disappeared - do the extinction math yourselves. Here, another majestic lion has been barbarically killed so an asshole can have a wall decoration.
2 traffickers arrested with two leopard skins
Congo, 28 Jul 2020PALF team kick-starting the action again this month. 2 traffickers arrested with two leopard skins and scales of giant pangolins in Pointe Noire. They transported the contraband concealed in a bag to conceal the transport and to evade law enforcement. They are notorious traffickers, connected to a wide criminal network. The two traffickers remain behind bars awaiting trial.
4 traffickers arrested with 6 tusks
Togo, 26 Jul 20204 traffickers arrested with 6 tusks in a crackdown series of arrests of a criminal network. One of them is also a part of a larger gold trafficking ring stretching to Burkina Faso and Ghana and evidence was found of his negotiation to buy 600 kg of trafficked gold from Ghana just last week.
2 traffickers arrested with 24 wild animals' skins
Senegal, 18 Jul 20202 traffickers arrested with 24 wild animals' skins including a leopard skin. They were arrested in the act. One of them attempted to flee during the arrest but was swiftly stopped. All the skins probably originated from the Niokolo Koba National Park, where one of the suspected traffickers have been active for more than 30 years. They remain in jail awaiting trial.
3 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks
Gabon, 13 Jul 2020Conservation Justice team hits again! three traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks.
2 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks and 16 hippo teeth
Gabon, 11 Jul 20202 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks and 16 hippo teeth. Conservation Justice back to action with the Gabonese authorities.
Sur le front des animaux menacés
Cameroon, 30 Jun 2020French TV channel France 2 during its prime time programme “Sur le front des animaux menacés” showed the pangolin trafficking theme with LAGA and covered the recent crackdown arrest of two military men with 400kg of pangolin scales, as well as a follow-up on a previous arrest of a woman trafficker.
2 human bones traffickers arrested
Cameroon, 27 Jun 20202 human bones traffickers arrested in the West of the country. Investigations on wildlife trafficking led to the discovery of a network of human bones traffickers and arresting 2 members of the ring with almost two full human skeletons packed inside two suitcases.
