Wildlife crime: Individual arrested with leopard and crocodile skins
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- 29 Sep 2022
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Another supposed trafficker of protected species, who is caught in the meshes of the nets of those involved in the fight against wildlife crime. The intense struggle waged by the latter has, in fact, ended up paying off. Since Friday, September 23, 2022 remains a new date to check off in the register of arrests made against those who engage in the illicit trafficking of protected species. Thus, through a statement sent yesterday to the newspaper Le Quotidien, it comes back to us that supported by the Eagle Senegal project, elements of the Directorate of National Parks of Tambacounda and agents of the Central Police Station of Tambacounda proceeded to arrest of a suspected trafficker and poacher. The latter was caught "in flagrante delicto of possession,
Without providing too much information on the sentence that the alleged offender risks, the document reveals, for information, that the eastern regions of the country, of which Tambacounda is a part, "have recorded between 2020 and 2022, the seizure of 25 Senegalese leopard skins or sometimes from the sub-region”. In addition, the press release underlines that the proportions taken by the trafficking of leopard skins, in eastern Senegal, illustrates until now how much “this geographical area is a high place of trafficking”.
This new arrest convinces on the necessity of the important work of awareness that the actors of the fight against wildlife crime are called upon to carry out in the face of the continuous development of this scourge. And, the latter do not fail to recall that "an alarming report had already been drawn up 4 months ago, through the press, to raise awareness among the populations of the worrying state of leopards in West Africa". Read More…
