Two ivory traffickers arrested in Gabon
Gabon – On Tuesday 13th November, 2 ivory traffickers have been arrested by forestry officials and “contre-ingérences”, with support and information from Conservation Justice...
View ArticleGabon – Great success of EAL’s partner Conservation Justice
Following a long term undercover investigation on an international ivory trafficking sea route, two traffickers were arrested in the Libreville sea port with 18 ivory tusks weighing a total of 178 kg...
View ArticlePoachers killed over 11,000 forest elephants in Gabon, in less than ten years.
New alarming news: poachers killed over 11,000 forest elephants in Gabon, in less than ten years. Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004,...
View ArticleFighting Wildlife Crime, Resisting Bribes and Sex Temptations in Gabon
Resisting Bribes and Sex Temptations The difficult life and work of true conservationists in the Congo basin. A message from our Conservation Partner Luc Mathot, Executive Director of ‘Conservation...
View ArticleEAL’s partner Conservation Justice made 4 arrests of ivory traffickers
Another amazing operation by our partner Conservation Justice in Gabon. Luc Mathot’s team managed to arrest 4 ivory traffickers near the Cameroon border. You guys are the best and we’re very proud to...
View ArticleAnother arrest facilitated by our partner in Gabon
The NGO Conservation Justice (CJ), our partner in Gabon, made another arrest, an ivory trafficker. It’s already the 3rd important operation in August. CJ reports that the last trafficker has been...
View ArticleBig ivory trafficker arrested in Gabon
On December 7, Jean-Philippe Nkaga, a notorious ivory trafficker and organizer of large-scale poaching in northern Gabon was arrested Minvoul. This is a repeat offender already sentenced in late 2011...
View ArticleLogging has allowed poachers to wipe out the African forest elephant
Logging has allowed poachers to pick off the African forest elephant at their will The Independent December 20, 2013 The ivory of these rainforest-dwelling creatures is harder and therefore more...
View ArticleGabon is just pretending to fight elephant poaching and ivory traffic
No results, almost no law, and the elephants are disappearing. From Gabon News: Based primarily on Gabonese ivory seizures in the world (2 tons in Hong Kong in August 2013, 3.8 tons in Togo in February...
View ArticleIvory dealer arrested in Gabon with 33 kilos of ivory
He risks just up to 6 months imprisonment, a ridiculous sentence, giving that those tusks are just a tiny fraction of the annual revenue of the trafficker. He was arrested in Libreville by the...
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