Indian customs officers created the latest “significant” seizures of endangered wildlife from a passenger coming from Thailand, a government statement, which carried almost 100 creatures including lizards, sun sun and climber.
Customs officials said that passengers, who also carried two spiders and turtles of Tarantula, “showed signs of nervousness” on arrival in Indian financial capital of Bombai.
The seizures come after the passenger was stopped by smugglers of dozens of poisonous scrap.
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Among the wild animals included Iguans, as well as Kinkajou or Honey Bear-Malé animal similar to raccoon from the Mexican rainforest-and six “sugar gliders”, gliding, the glide found in Australia.
Photographs published by a customs unit showed that six sugar gliders were huddled together in the basket and also a box crammed with lizards.
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“In a significant operation, customs officials … they captured an Indian citizen … leading to seizure of more lively and deceased species of wild animals, some of which are protected according to the laws on the protection of wild animals,” the Ministry of Finance said in a statement in the late Monday.
Trade in wild animals monitors traffic that fights wild animals and plants, warned against the “very worrying” trend in trading in exotic pets.
More than 7,000 animals, dead and living, have been confiscated along the air route in Thailand and India in the last 3.5 years.
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Customs officers at Mumbai Airport are more accustomed to seizing smuggled gold, cash or cannabis – but cases of wildlife seizures have recently seen a gradual increase.
Customs officers confiscated dozens of snakes and several turtles from Indian national flying from Thailand in early June.
Among them were several spiders of horned schedule, a poisonous species described only in 2006 and classified as a “almost threatened” international Union for preserving nature (IUCN).
Transport said its analysis showed that while most cases include animals smuggled from Thailand, there were more than 80 percent of wiretaps in India.
“Almost a week’s discoveries and diversity of wild animals on the way to India are very disturbing,” said Southeast Asia, Kanitha Krishnasama in Southeast Asia.
Many of them were alive, “showing that the screams of exotic pets control trade,” she added.
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In February, customs officials at Mumbai Airport also stopped a smuggler with five Siamang Gibbons, a small apes from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Almost a week’s discoveries and diversity of wild animals on the way to India are very worrying.
These small creatures, listed as IUCN threatened, were “sophisticated” in the plastic Bedza placed inside the passenger wheelchair, customs officers said.
In November, the authorities found a passenger who bear a chrout live cargo of 12 turtles.
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