Video Gallery

Anna Egbe Etaka, the EAGLE activist travelled to the US to volunteer in the Elephant Conservation Summit at the Jackson Hole, where thanks to her LAGA took the lead in arguing for ivory stock pile to be burnt in Africa in order to curb corruption and stop trade in ivory as part of a solution to preserve elephants. She held several important meetings with journalists and US Government officials. She also participated in preparation of the video.

In August, the former director of wildlife and former head of CITES in Guinea - Ansoumane Doumbouya - has been arrested. Different reports, including one from the CITES secretariat, implicated him in illegal exports, but he is still holding a position within the ministry of environment as the coordinator of the team controlling illegal logging. The shocking hidden footage in the link below shows a major trafficker explaining in details the corrupt system. (The trafficker has been arrested two days ago)

Low deterrent sentences deal with crimes against surround in Gabon – coverage at Kanal7, a Gabonese Channel but broadcast also on Canalsat, available in all Africa. In Gabon, killing an elephant, ivory or leopard skins trafficking, as well as any other wildlife crime, leads only to low sentences. The prison sentences are 22 days on average, the maximum possible penalty is six months. AALF denounce this form of impunity that is likely to encourage any kind of trafficking. (in French)

Luc Mathot, the co-founder of EAGLE Network spoke, about illegal logging at Kanal7, widely watched in African countries.

Two ape traffickers arrested as they attempted to sell four chimpanzee skulls that they had collected from a poacher.

A man arrested in Magba in the west region of Cameroon with over 30 Chimp skulls and limbs among which was a live baby chimp. The two traffickers were caught and put behind bars as an offense against these protected animal while awaiting trial.

Ofir Drori, the Director of the Eagles Network, a Wildlife Law Enforcement project that works in eight different countries. Here he discusses the launch of the Interpol environmental security office within the Interpol regional bureau in Nairobi. He has paid a courtesy call to the WildlifeDirect offices in Nairobi.

Canal 2 international Television channel broadcast the arrest of a dealer in the East region of Cameroon with skulls and teeth of elephant. He was caught in a crack down operation led by officials of the Upper Nyong delegation of Forestry and Wildlife assisted technically by LAGA. The possession of these trophies only explains how much the country fauna is endangered!

Wildlife: The crisis of conversation i24news is an international 24-hour news and current affairs television channel based in Jaffa Port.

Following investigations carried out by TALFF and l'Unité Mixte de Contrôle des conteneurs and l'Office Central de Répression du Trafic Illicite des Drogues et du Blanchiment (OCRTIDB) 2126.3 kg of ivory tusks were seized in Lome on January 29, 2014 at the Port of Lomé. The seized contraband belonged to the traffickers arrested earlier. Two of them were Togolese, the third man was Vietnamese.

An estimated 3,000 great apes are lost from the wild to the global illicit live trade each year, and many wind up smuggled, shipped, and sold. Naftali Honig runs the wildlife enforcement project PALF in Congo, together with other activists they have set up a new organisation - Eagle Network which spans 6 African countries. We caught up with him to ask him what can be done to fight trafficking.

A new book - The Last Great Ape: A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent