Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade burgeoning in the country
The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces.
The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces.
DRI and AIU officers at Trichy International Airport recovered 45 live reptiles concealed in 27 food packets carried by two Indian passengers arriving from Bangkok via Colombo on October 26. The sedated animals included Corn Snakes, Ball Pythons, Argentine Black and White Tegus…
The three males and two females, aged 6 to 8 months, were left on a plantation in eastern India’s Odisha, over 2,700 kilometers (1,700 miles) from their native rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra, evidence of a growing illicit trade of apes being trafficked into…
An Orange County couple has been sentenced for trafficking protected wildlife, including a tiger pelt, rhinoceros horns and lion teeth, as part of an international operation involving the United States and Vietnam, federal officials announced Friday. Linh Luu and Kevin…
(CNN) - A California couple pleaded guilty Friday to trafficking wildlife. Linh Luu and Kevin Le processed more than $50,000 in payments to help someone in Vietnam illegally move wildlife items to and from Oregon, according to court documents. The trafficked items…
Updated - October 27, 2026 07:16 pm IST - TIRUCHI Customs officials arrested two air passengers and seized 45 live exotic species at Tiruchi International Airport on Monday. The seized species comprised 23 corn snakes, 16 ball pythons, five black-and-white degus and a snow iguana. The passengers, a…
The three males and two females, aged 6 to 8 months, were left on a plantation in eastern India’s Odisha, over 2,700 kilometers (1,700 miles) from their native rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra, evidence of a growing illicit trade of apes being trafficked into…
Villagers who found five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces. Left on a plantation in Odisha, the three males and two females—aged six to eight months…
Monday October 26, 2026 Five baby orangutans discovered in a forest in eastern India have highlighted the growing illegal trade in exotic animals, while conservationists are raising concerns over the acquisition of rare wildlife by a zoo owned by the family of…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’, has rescued five pangolins abandoned by wildlife traffickers and fled as officers intercepted their vehicle during an intelligence-led operation along the Igbo-Ora/Imeko-Afon axis of Ogun State. As gathered,…
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