Critter News
JUNE 19, 2010
Here is one of their stories about tortoises being smuggled in luggage.note the drug connection. Enforcement agencies discovered 300 tortoises from Madagascar bound and packed in two suitcases that also contained drugs at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week. Tags: wildlife smuggling tortoises.
Critter News
MAY 10, 2010
Tags: wildlife smuggling reptiles tortoises. I admit I stole the title of this post straight from the article.
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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.
Critter News
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime pakistan thailand tortoises. He was caught at a Thai airport.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime UK tortoises. Another catch by the UK's National Wildlife Crime unit.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
National Geographic Channel’s upcoming show, Unlikely Animal Friends, will bring you stories about Christian the Lion and his humans, a baby hippo and a giant tortoise, a lioness and a baby oryx, an orangutan and a hound dog and more! A baby hippo chooses a giant tortoise as a surrogate parent. Tags: tv.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
The latest example is an extinct Galapagos tortoise species. Tags: extinction. Should they? I just don't feel it's right, as great as it would be to correct the mistakes we've made. It cheapens life and makes the original seem replaceable. Mass-production of blue dodos? Designer velociraptors? Remember Jurassic Park?
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