Database of Wildlife Related Law
On the 4 June 2016, elements of the conservation service of the Forestry and Wildlife control post, Koumela, received reliable information about an ongoing illegal activity in the quarter of Nouveau Camp-Libongo.
On the 1 August 2015, elements of the conservation service of the Lobeke National Park organized an anti-poaching patrol in the said park and its peripheries. Following this patrol, the elements proceeded to arrest five (5) poachers camping in the forest, in SAFARI Lobeke.
On the 15 May 2014, elements of the conservation service of the Lobeke National Park arrested the accused Akouya Freddy in the locality of Nguilili, arrested the accused in possession of two elephant ivories. The accused admitted ownership of the said ivories and confessed.
On the 21 November 2012, the accused, Mendomo Cecile gave ammunitions to the co-offender Mbane Simon to poach elephants. He killed an elephant and stripped off its ivory tusks. On returning home, he was arrested by elements of the Wildlife and Forestry control post of Mintom, while looking to sell the ivories and discard the gun.
In June 2019, an elephant was reported killed in the North of the Dja Biosphere reserve in a village called Doumo-Pierre. Following this, the elements of the Divisional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife Haut Nyong, arrested the accused Mebihi Daniel, an infamous poacher specialized in Elephant and Great apes poaching.
In 2014, the accused persons EKEL EKOAKAN Placide Magloire and METSINDE Rodrigue Terache both court registrars of the Court of First Yokadouma, broke into the office of the Registrar-in-Chief and collected three (3) elephant ivories which had been seized and kept in the registry as exhibits.
In January 2016, the conservation service of the Boumba Bek National Park arrested the accused Ndongo Basile and Yelima Gaston for poaching two (2) elephants in the said park and extracted their ivories. The co-offender Alea Florent furnished them with the weapon, a hunting gun needed to poach the elephants.
In 2017, elements of the conservation service of the Nki National park arrested some unidentified individuals in the said park for killing elephants. The other co-offenders escaped successfully with the loot leaving the accused.
On the 20 June 2014, elements of the conservation service of the Mt. Cameroon National Park organized an anti-poaching patrol in the village of Efolofo, located around the said park. Upon hearing a gun, they moved towards the direction with the aid of cyber tracker.
On the 9 December 2014, elements of the Regional Delegation of Forestry and Wildlife Buea received a letter from military officials who were on a mixed control mission in the town of Misselele, about a seizure of pangolin scales and elephant ivories carried out on the 8 December.
