187 fresh elephant tusks intercepted in Yaounde

The Nsimalen Water and Forests checkpoint seized on September 1, 2014, a shipment of 187 fresh ivory tusks, equivalent to a herd of 94 elephants decimated, announced officials of the Ministry of Forestry and wildlife.

Carriers of the cargo were arrested and an investigation was immediately opened to dismantle the entire network consisting of ivory traffickers and poachers behind the massacre of elephants, which are protected species by the Cameroon wildlife regulations.

As a reminder, Cameroon, home to a large population of elephants in natural parks such as Waza and Bouba Ndjida in the northern part of the country is often under attack from poachers (sometimes from foreign countries such Sudan, Chad etc.)

This is repeated assault from the beginning of 2012 that led to the massacre of nearly 500 elephants according to WWF, while the Cameroonian government, had mentioned 250 pachyderms slaughtered.