Eighteen years of documented wildlife seizures, arrests, and smuggling routes across Cameroon — mapped, counted, and filterable by species, region, and year.
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How this began. In 2024 our focus broadened from conflict to include conservation, after encountering the aftermath of poaching first-hand in the South West Region. What followed was an exhaustive review of the state of the illicit wildlife trade in Cameroon — and the realization that no consolidated record of it existed. So we built one: the first open-access wildlife trafficking incident dataset for the country, two decades of scattered seizure reports, court records, and press accounts structured into the single resource you are looking at now.
What the data science found — and didn't. We put the dataset through a battery of data-science methods, from forecasting to pattern mining. Most came up short: the record is too sparse and too uneven for these tools to produce reliable results. That negative result was itself the most useful finding. Many of the areas most in need of attention had no data at all, and where data existed it was scattered across disconnected reports and papers. That realization is, in part, why Horn und Tusk exists.
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