Database of Wildlife Related Law
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.
At the heart of this matter were the customary rights to marine resources. The appellants were tried at the Magistrate court and later appealed to the High Court in Mthatha. The Hight Court, however, held that their conduct was unlawful because they had not applied for an exemption as contemplated in the MLRA, granting them a permit to fish.
The court held that the appellants were protecting the lives of the cubs and as well as their legal interest in the survical of the cubs as the owners of the very expensive animals.
The appellant was found to have been complicit in the transaction where a fake rhino horn was sold in a police trap for R350 000. He was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. The appellant unsuccessfully appealed to the Free State High Court against his conviction and sentence.
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 November, 9, 2016, after a denunciation, Kielouhouin Pierre and Sidibe Brahima were arrested in the midst of a transaction by the agents in possession of six raw and fresh ivory tusks with total mass weight of 20 kg hidden in two bags of rice.
On October 15, 2018 at 9:00pm, MBINI KINIOUMBA Brice Aymar a Congolese individual was arrested by elements of the gendarmerie brigade inside a vehicle on the road Mouila-Lambarene in possession of boxes containing cartridges. During his interrogation he declared to have purchased the ammunition in Congo with prior authorization.
On October 18, 2017, water and forest administration officials of Ngounié were informed that a transaction of products of fully protected species was to be made in a motel in Mouila.
