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A corrupt police officer arrested with 5 lion skulls
Cameroon, 18 May 2019Also seized - a tusk and a leopard skin. He has been central for wildlife trafficking in the north of the country where the last remaining lions are. The LAGA team attacked the trafficker in Yaoundé when he arrived from the north and worked with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife and the Gendarmerie.
4 traffickers arrested including a prefet
Gabon, 8 May 20194 traffickers arrested including a prefet (a local authority high official, one level below a governor). Good work of fighting corruption and complicity of Conservation Justice with the Gabonese authorities.
2 traffickers arrested with two tusks
Gabon, 4 May 20192 traffickers arrested with two tusks. One is a Burkina Faso national. Good work of conservation justice and the Gabonese authorities.
3 traffickers arrested with two tusks
Gabon, 3 May 20193 ivory traffickers arrested with 2 tusks. 3 hunting guns were found in the house of one of them. Good work of Conservation Justice with the Gabonese authorities.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 3 tusks
Congo, 26 Apr 2019An ivory trafficker arrested in the capital city with 3 tusks. He is notorious well-connected trafficker and has been trading ivory regularly across the country. He brought the tusks concealed in his backpack from a small town in the area near the Gabonese border to avoid detection.
A trafficker arrested with 3 lion heads skins
Senegal, 23 Apr 2019A trafficker arrested in Dakar with 3 lion heads skins and other contraband, including lion bones, vulture heads, oryx horns and other contraband, concealed in rice bags.
2 ivory traffickers arrested with 6 tusks
Gabon, 19 Apr 20192 ivory traffickers arrested with 6 tusks in the West of the country.
3 leopard skin traffickers arrested
Senegal, 16 Apr 20193 leopard skin traffickers arrested in a double-operation clamping down on two different trafficking groups. Two traffickers were arrested with 2 leopard skins and 3 skins of harnessed bushbuck, species fully protected in Senegal. They were arrested in their home in the attempt to sell the skins, concealed in a bag. The third one was arrested with one leopard skin, which he attempted to sell in a market. He carried the skin concealed in a millet bag.
3 trafickers arrested with 3 tusks
Benin, 16 Apr 20193 traffickers arrested with 3 tusks. One of them escaped during the arrest of AALF-B and local authorities and chased by Jules Dovi that led the team only to be found hiding in a room of an old woman nearby.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 16 tusks
Gabon, 15 Apr 2019A trafficker of Cameroonian origin arrested with 16 tusks. Good work of conservation justice with the Gabonese authorities.
3 ivory traffickers arrested with 5 tusks
Cameroon, 11 Apr 20193 ivory traffickers arrested with five tusks of very young elephants and an elephant tail. The LAGA team hit this gang in the south of the country with MINFOF, police and gendarmerie. The first two arrested led the team to the third one that admitted the elephants were killed inside the Dja reserve.
An ivory trafficker arrested with 4 tusks
Gabon, 9 Apr 2019An ivory trafficker arrested in capital city with 4 tusks. Good woork of Conservation Justice with authorities.
