An extensive
network of traffic ivory dismantled in Gabon
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| Ivory seized in |
March 2013.
The Gabon National Agency for National Parks and judicial authorities have
recorded significant success in their crusade against poaching in Minkébé National Park
The National Parks and the Minkébé Provincial police have concluded a week of intense activity marked by numerous arrests of poachers, and seizure of weapons and ivory stock. They have arrested a man who is believed to be the mastermind of one of the most active poaching networks.
Mr Athanase Edou Mebiane, a Sub-Prefect in the local government, was arrested and accused after authorities gathered damning evidence about the senior local government official's active involvement in illegal hunting and ivory trafficking.
The National Parks and the Minkébé Provincial police have concluded a week of intense activity marked by numerous arrests of poachers, and seizure of weapons and ivory stock. They have arrested a man who is believed to be the mastermind of one of the most active poaching networks.
Mr Athanase Edou Mebiane, a Sub-Prefect in the local government, was arrested and accused after authorities gathered damning evidence about the senior local government official's active involvement in illegal hunting and ivory trafficking.
It is alleged
that the Mebiane ran a team of elephant hunters in the Minkébé Forest Cameroon
The dismantling of this network is a warning to all criminal organizations involved in the ivory trade inGabon
The dismantling of this network is a warning to all criminal organizations involved in the ivory trade in
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