● MOZAMBIQUE: A specialist team of illegal wildlife trade detection dogs has helped catch a trafficker trying to smuggle rhino horns and lion’s teeth and nails through Maputo International Airport.
Trained by the African Wildlife Foundation’s Canines for Conservation programme and supported by the Peace Parks Foundation, a sniffer dog and handler from the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) caught the Vietnamese woman attempting to board a commercial flight.
ANAC’s work using detection dogs to crack down on wildlife crime has resulted in several recent arrests and the interception of illicit wildlife products, including ivory, rhino horn, and pangolin scales — hidden in cargo or luggage en route to China, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia.