{"id":3545,"date":"2014-08-24T21:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/une-peine-peu-dissuasive-pour-trafic-divoire\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:04:43","slug":"a-demonstration-of-gabons-weak-wildlife-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/a-demonstration-of-gabons-weak-wildlife-law\/","title":{"rendered":"A demonstration of Gabon&#8217;s weak wildlife law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1697\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/CJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cas-train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/CJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cas-train.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Bondouaboka during his arrest a month ago. \u00a9 Conservation Justice\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Bondouaboka during his arrest a month ago. \u00a9 Conservation Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A month after being arrested by the railway police in possession of Ntoum 4 tusks of ivory totaling 14 kg, Mr Kevin Bondouaboka was tried and convicted of possession and marketing of elephant ivory, a fully protected species. He gets a one (1) month suspended prison sentence and payment of FCFA 200,000 for damages.<\/p>\n<p>Although weak, the legislation still provides a penalty of up to six months in prison and fines of up to ten million FCFA. Mr. Bondouaboka who tried to escape would have to undergo a much harsher sentence, a reason probably why the prosecution appealed. So he remains in custody and will be judged on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>This case demonstrates once again the lack of effect of the Gabonese law relates to a phenomenon yet to enormous impact both economically and environmentally. For comparison, Mr Bondouaboka have copped a maximum of 5 years in Congo, Cameroon 3 years, 1 year in CAR, 5 years in Benin, Burkina 5 years and 2 years in Togo.<\/p>\n<p>When you know that the original ivory seizures of Gabon are conducted around the world, it seems necessary to take a firm stand against the ivory trade. For example a seizure of 30 kg of ivory that would Gabon was conducted last week in Benin. In Togo, it is 3.8 tons seized in February, mainly from Gabon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.gabonews.com\/environment\/items\/a-demonstration-of-gabons-weak-wildlife-law-4289.html\">http:\/\/en.gabonews.com\/environment\/items\/a-demonstration-of-gabons-weak-wildlife-law-4289.html<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A month after being arrested by the railway police in possession of Ntoum 4 tusks of ivory totaling 14 kg, Mr Kevin Bondouaboka was tried and convicted of possession and marketing of elephant ivory, a fully protected species. He gets a one (1) month suspended prison sentence and payment of FCFA 200,000 for damages. Although [&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-3545","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\/3545","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=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3556"}],"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=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservation-justice.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}