A government statement said that the Indian customs officers carried out the latest “important” attack of the endangered wildlife from one of the passengers from Thailand.
Customs officers said that the passenger, who was also carrying the spiders and turtle, “showed signs of tension” when he reached the financial capital in India.
Nubia comes after a passenger stops Smuggling of dozens of toxic snakesHe also arrived from Thailand, earlier in June. “They included 44 snakes of the Indonesian hole and have been hidden in the luggage that was examined,” Customs in Mumbai said in a statement.
Wildlife in the latest Iguanas seizure, as well as Kenakagu or Hani Bear, included a small animal that resembles raccoons of rainforests in Mexico-along with six “sugar-sugar planes”-a component of a creeper was found in Australia.
The photos released by the Customs Unit showed that the six sugar -sugar planes gathered together in a basket, as well as a lizard decorated box.
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“In an important process, customs officials objected … an Indian citizen … which led to the seizure of many types of living and deadly wildlife, some of which are protected under the laws to protect wildlife.”
An annoying smuggling direction
On Tuesday, traffic in the wildlife trade, which fights the smuggling of animals and wild plants, warned on Tuesday of a “very worrying” trend in trafficking in foreign pet trade.
More than 7000 animals have been seized dead and alive, along the Thailand-India road in the past three years.
Customs employees are used at Mumbai Airport to seize gold, cash or smuggled hemp – but the cases of a wildlife attack have witnessed a recent increase.
Customs officers seized dozens of snakes and many turtles from an Indian citizen who flies from Thailand earlier in June.
Among them are many snakes, a toxic, which is a toxic type that scientists described only in 2006 and classified as “almost threatened” by the International Conservation Federation (IUCN).
Traffic said its analysis showed that although most cases include animals smuggled from Thailand, more than 80 percent of the objections occurred in India.
“The discoveries and diversity in wildlife almost every week on its way to India are very concerned,” said Kanetha Krishnassami, Southeast Asia Director, Southeast Asian Traffic Director.
She added that many of those captured were alive, which “indicates that the bustle of exotic pets are leading trade.”
In February, customs officials at Mumbai Airport also arrested a smuggler with five Siameng Gibbons, a small monkey home to the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Customs officers said that these small creatures, which were inserted as threatened with extinction by IUCN, were “brilliantly hidden” in a plastic cage placed inside the passenger cart.
In November, the authorities found a passenger carrying a live shipment of 12 turtles.
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