Champion wildlife crime opponent awarded top WWF honours from Mike Goldwater on Vimeo.
Ofir Drori, a tireless anti-corruption whistleblower and law enforcement activist working on the frontlines of endangered wildlife protection in West and Central Africa, has been awarded the 2012 WWF Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal.
Israeli educator, photojournalist and activist Drori, 36, arrived in Cameroon a decade ago where he founded the Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA), the first wildlife law enforcement non-governmental organization in Africa. Within seven months, LAGA had brought about Cameroon’s first wildlife crime prosecution, providing a model that is now being replicated in West and Central Africa. Drori is also founder-director of the Central Africa Wildlife Law Enforcement Network.
Filmed in Central Africa by Mike Goldwater and Angela Robson for WWF with additional footage from LAGA laga-enforcement.org and Conservation Justice conservation-justice.org
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