Tortoise Smuggling on the Rise
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MAY 10, 2010
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Yikes! Two TONS of Snakes & Tortoises Seized
Critter News
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday. They found 3,640 pounds (1,655 kilograms) of snakes, mostly pythons, and 263 tortoises that weighed a combined 697 pounds (317 kilograms), said Col.
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