Conservation Justice Asbl

More than 600 wildlife smugglers arrested and sentenced to jail : CONSERVATION JUSTICE is active mainly in Gabon on wildlife and forest law enforcement. Since 2010, Conservation Justice aims to protect elephants in addition to other threatened species in Gabon from illegal hunting and wildlife trade by increasing the level of wildlife law enforcement nationwide and deterring potential elephant poachers and ivory traders from conducting these activities. Another objective if the fight against illegal logging. Conservation Justice is also member and one of the founding NGO of the EAGLE Network In order to achieve its goals, the objectives of Conservation Justice, AALF (Appui à l’Application de la Loi sur la Faune) project are: To identify large-scale dealers in ivory and meat, and other illegal wildlife products, and provide evidence to support legal action against them. To bring about the arrest of large-scale illegal wildlife traders. To ensure the prosecution of large-scale illegal wildlife traders, and that sentences are handed down and served. To raise public awareness of the increased enforcement of wildlife law and the risks and penalties for wildlife criminals. The results of these activities are frequent arrests and prosecutions for wildlife crimes involving elephant and other species, an increased national capacity to enforce wildlife laws, an increased public awareness of improved enforcement, and hence a reduced demand for illegally hunted elephant. Conservation Justice has also developed a similar approach to fight against illegal logging and an official partnership with Gabonese Government has been signed. Several illegal loggers and accomplices have already arrested, sentenced and jailed.