EAGLE Côte d’Ivoire - 2 traffickers arrested in Abidjan with 2 elephant tusks.
The main trafficker travelled from the north of country to trade the ivory in the capital.
Good work of Gaspard’s team with the UCT special unit and MINEF.
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Cameroon - 3 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks. Behind them a retired Colonel of the Ministry in charge of Wildlife that has also been in charge of several National Parks. He has been charged and forwarded to court as well.
Good work of LAGA with the authorities.
Republic of Congo - a trafficker arrested with a leopard skin.
The illegal trade in leopard skins is decimating leopards at an alarming rate.
Good work of the PALF team with the authorities.
#wildlifelawenforcement#wildlifecrime#wildlifetrafficking#eagle
Republic of Congo - 2 traffickers arrested with 81kg scales of endangered giant pangolins. The priest and municipal worker used their position, mainly with Chinese.
Good work of the PALF team with the authorities.
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Cameroon - 4 traffickers arrested with 4 elephant tusks.
One of them is a forestry engineer working in a logging company. Another is an electromechanical engineer in a government ministry.
Good work of the LAGA team with the authorities.
#wildlifelawenforcement
The EAGLE Briefing of June is out:
•8 traffickers arrested in 4 countries
•A trafficker arrested with 3 lion skins in Uganda
•4 traffickers arrested with 11 tusks and 8 ivory pieces in a crackdown on a cross-border trafficking ring in Togo
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EAGLE Togo - 4 traffickers arrested with 11 tusks , 8 ivory pieces and 7 hippo teeth in a crackdown on a cross-border trafficking ring.
Great work of Darius’ team with the BRI and MERF.
EAGLE Uganda - a trafficker arrested with 3 lion skins!
This is a mere snapshot of an ongoing regular lion skins trafficking of this ring.
Lion numbers in Uganda are plummeting estimated to have only 200-300 remain in the whole country.
#eagleuganda#lionrecovery
EAGLE Togo - A trafficker from Burkina Faso arrested with two elephant tusks in Lome. He is a government worker trafficking ivory cross-border with his boss.
the trafficker is involved in counterfeit money criminality.
Great work of Darius’ team with the OCRTIDB and MERF.
May EAGLE briefing is out :
* 6 traffickers arrested in 2 countries
* 2 traffickers arrested with 7 elephant tusks, a leopard skin and a gorilla skull in Congo
*2 traffickers arrested with 2 elephant tusks in Congo
*2 traffickers arrested in Senegal with a leopard skin
EAGLE April briefing:
•A Chinese national arrested in a glass eels trafficking crackdown
•2 traffickers arrested with 2 leopard skins in Congo
•2 traffickers arrested with 2 killed gorillas in Cameroon
https://t.co/M3lyiRvJJo
Republic of Congo - 2 traffickers arrested with 7 elephant tusks and a leopard skin. A house search recovered a gorilla skull as well.
Good work of Jules, Crepin and the team with the authorities in Pointe-Noire.
#wildlifelawenforcement#wildlifecrime#eagle
EAGLE Senegal - a Chinese national arrested in a glass eels trafficking crackdown in an exceptional Frence-Senegal collaboration. Cecile and her team exposed a vast glass eels criminal operation stretching over several warehouses, locating numerous members of the ring.
Cameroon - 2 traffickers specialized in poaching and trafficking in great apes arrested with 2 killed gorillas.
Due to corruption they disappeared right after LAGA’s cell visit, and reported- “escaped”. The search is ongoing and the corruption incident is under investigation.