{"id":3514,"date":"2015-03-02T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/deux-trafiquants-divoire-arretes-a-libreville\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:03:12","slug":"ivory-traffickers-arrested-in-libreville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/ivory-traffickers-arrested-in-libreville\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory traffickers arrested in Libreville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/CJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/img-20150205-00912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/CJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/img-20150205-00912.jpg\" alt=\"img-20150205-00912\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Intervention Brigade of the Judicial Police arrested last Wednesday at Nombak\u00e9l\u00e9, near the March\u00e9 Artisanal,\u00a0KOITA Alassane and YATTASSAYE Ali, both Malians and sellers at the craft market and NDONG Chancel Cedric, a Gabonese sculptor in possession of two elephant tusks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These three gentlemen were caught\u00a0in the act\u00a0of cutting the\u00a0ivory. Two (2) tusks weighing respectively 14.2 kg and 12.5 kg for a total weight of 26.7 kg and a balance were seized.<\/p>\n<p>On the official report on the premises of the judicial police, Ali YATTASSAYE and KOITA Alassane admitted having bought the two defenses for\u00a0600 000 FCFA and enlisted the help of Mr. C\u00e9dric Chancel NDONG to cut it\u00a0into pieces in order to sell them.<\/p>\n<p>Trafficking of species continues to thrive despite efforts by the authorities. The craft market is proving to be a major focus of wildlife products traffic because in four years, at least three operations\u00a0helped to seize large quantities of products of carved ivory, bags crocodile skins, belts of animal skins, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The Judicial Police demonstrates once again that it is also committed to fighting on the ground against wildlife crime, having made numerous arrests of major traffickers in Libreville and the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arambo.net\/?p=94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/arambo.net\/?p=94<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Intervention Brigade of the Judicial Police arrested last Wednesday at Nombak\u00e9l\u00e9, near the March\u00e9 Artisanal,\u00a0KOITA Alassane and YATTASSAYE Ali, both Malians and sellers at the craft market and NDONG Chancel Cedric, a Gabonese sculptor in possession of two elephant tusks. These three gentlemen were caught\u00a0in the act\u00a0of cutting the\u00a0ivory. Two (2) tusks weighing respectively [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}