{"id":3532,"date":"2015-03-02T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/un-million-damende-pour-deux-braconniers-de-medouneu\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:06:26","slug":"two-poachers-arrested-in-medouneu-northern-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/two-poachers-arrested-in-medouneu-northern-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poachers arrested in M\u00e9douneu (Northern Gabon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Mr Obiang NDONG Marcel and Mr Emanuel ALLONGIFOR who had been arrested for hunting of a fully protected species and illegal possession of ivory tusks\u00a0last October by the Medouneu gendarmerie were ultimately judged last Tuesday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"local-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spyghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ivoire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-697772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spyghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ivoire.jpg\" alt=\"ivoire\" width=\"581\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">NDONG OBIANG Marcel and ALLONGIFOR Emanuel were found guilty of the offense of hunting a fully protected species and illegal possession of ivory tusks. They were sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine of 1,500,000 FCFA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">As a reminder, on October 28, 2014, Mr Obiang NDONG Marcel had killed an elephant within 500m of his plantation. According to him, the elephant had devastated many plantations in the Nkoualla village near Medouneu. After shooting the elephant, Mr Obiang NDONG Marcel went to the Medouneu gendarmerie to inform the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">However, Mr Obiang Ndong Marcel had removed the tusks of the elephant and had sold them to\u00a0Mr Emanuel ALLONGIFOR at a price of 300,000 FCFA. He had been arrested\u00a0by the gendarmerie in possession of that ivory tips (2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">This is a network of well-organized ivory traffickers dismantled here thanks to the efforts of the gendarmerie in Medouneu involved in the increased poaching which\u00a0gives a bad image to\u00a0Gabon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.gabonews.com\/environment\/items\/two-poachers-arrested-in-medouneu-northern-gabon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/en.gabonews.com\/environment\/items\/two-poachers-arrested-in-medouneu-northern-gabon.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spyghana.com\/?p=697771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.spyghana.com\/?p=697771<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Obiang NDONG Marcel and Mr Emanuel ALLONGIFOR who had been arrested for hunting of a fully protected species and illegal possession of ivory tusks\u00a0last October by the Medouneu gendarmerie were ultimately judged last Tuesday. NDONG OBIANG Marcel and ALLONGIFOR Emanuel were found guilty of the offense of hunting a fully protected species and illegal [&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-3532","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\/3532","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=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3535"}],"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=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}