Activity report March 2018

Highlights:  

  • 5 traffickers arrested during 2 operations, with raw and carved ivory and a gun.
  • 3 arrested in Ebolowa during first operation with 4 ivory tusks and a gun.
  • Crackdown on an arts shop selling ivory in a hotel in Yaounde. The owner and the seller both arrested with 121 carved ivory pieces.
  • The Deputy Director participated in a GIS for combating wildlife trafficking workshop in Ethiopia
  • The Deputy Director did a presentation on corruption in the wildlife law enforcement process during a workshop in Yaounde organised by the US department of justice.