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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.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 7 tusks
Benin, 27 Jun 2020An ivory trafficker arrested with 7 tusks, weighing almost 20 kg. The trafficker of Burkina Faso nationality was arrested in the act when he tried to sell the tusks, which he brought to the place of transaction on a motorbike concealed in a jute bag.
2 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins
Senegal, 11 Jun 20202 traffickers arrested with 4 leopard skins ! EAGLE-Segnegal kick-starting operations despite all the pandemic related restrictions!
380kg pangolin scales seized and two military men arrested
Cameroon, 7 Jun 2020380kg pangolin scales seized and two military men arrested with a third trafficker in a crackdown on an important pangolin scales trafficking ring.
2 ivory traffickers arrested with two tusks
Cameroon, 3 Jun 20202 ivory traffickers arrested in the east of the country with two tusks. The traffickers are a part of a network stretching to CAR and connected to Congo. One of them is a target of investigations for a long time admitted to be a gold trafficker as well. Very good operation of the LAGA team - Serge, Aime, Anna and Stevens with the authorities.
