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JUNE 19, 2010

I've finally started getting email updates from Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network. Here is one of their stories about tortoises being smuggled in luggage.note the drug connection. The tortoise- and drug-filled bags had come in on 1 June on an Air Mauritius flight and were discovered by Customs officers at the airport.

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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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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime pakistan thailand tortoises. He was caught at a Thai airport.

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Another catch by the UK's National Wildlife Crime unit. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime UK tortoises.

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