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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=288756
Israeli Activist Wins International Prize for Fight Against African Animal Trafficking
(Jerusalem Post) Sharon Udasin - When Israeli photojournalist Ofir Drori began his post-army odyssey through Africa, he never thought he would end up pioneering the take-down of a regional animal trafficking industry. Drori, now 36, will receive this year's World Wildlife Fund for Nature Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal for his work over the past decade as founder and director of both The Last Great Ape Organization Cameroon (LAGA) and the Central Africa Wildlife Law Enforcement Network - organizations that have led to hundreds of arrests and prosecutions of wildlife criminals. Drori discovered in 2003 a complex network of organized crime behind the animal trafficking system in central and western Africa which involved powerful people and the cooperation of the police.