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On 27 March 2019 at around 4:00pm, Ndombi Christine was apprehended by the wildlife and protected areas mobile brigade during a routine control at the Doussala road axis while she was going to Congo to buy cassava. After search, the control agents found a bag containing cartridges.

On May 16, 2019, water and forests agents were informed that a transaction on ivory tusks will take place in a hotel in Mouila and decided together with the police to move to the place. While there, they found Mrs Koghe in possession of two ivory tusks, arrested her and brought her to the police.

On February 5, 2000, on the road Lébamba-Mimongo, water and forests agents arrest Mougangui Valentin unemployed in possession of bushmeat (gazelle and wild boar) products from hunting. During his interrogation, he declared to have hunted the animals to feed his family.

On October 18, 2017, elements of the judicial police provincial antenna assisted by water and forests and conservation justice NGO agents set a entrapment following the reception of an information on a transaction on fully protected species, which led to the arrest of MOKAMBO Jean Felix, MBOUMBA Raymond, MOUSSOUNGUILA MOUCKETOU Maxime.

In September 2013 at Lebamba, Ngoyi Jacques went to the forest to visit his traps and found that one pather who trapped in one of them. He went back to find some help and came back with Moukala Francois and together their skinned the animal and shared the meat and skin of the animal.

The accused were charged with various counts in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (“POCA”). The court was presented with evidence which led to the accused’s’ arrest. During the trial, it became apparent that there was an informer who was working for the Scorpions and was gathering information of the crime syndicate.

The court considered an appeal against the sentenced imposed on the appellants on the basis that they are shockingly inappropriate and out of kilter with other cases and that the court below didn’t take into account their personal circumstances.

On 17 – 18 June 2016 at Bucklands Farm, in the district of Albany, in the course of which a white rhino known as Cambell, belonging to one Ian Steward, was darted with a tranquilizer gun and its horn removed, resulting in the death of the rhino. The police were working on Operation Full Moon as Rhino poaching was rife.

The applicant sought an order declaring the respondent’s motor vehicle forfeit to the state following his arrest for illegal poaching. The court dismissed the application on the basis that being motion proceedings, the matter had, there being no request for a referral for oral evidence, to be decided on the respondent’s version.

A simultaneous appeal and review was brought concerning the customary rights of the Dwesa-Cwebe communities to access marine resources in a marine protected area. An appeal was brought against the conviction and sentence of the accused for, among others, fishing or attempting to fish in a marine protected area.