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03-29-2013, 11:58 AM
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Ploughshare Tortoise Smugglers Caught in Thailand
This is pretty sad......
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2972673.html
Quote:
Ploughshare Tortoise Smugglers Caught With 10 Percent Of Entire Species At Thailand Airport
The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble
Posted: 03/28/2013 3:55 pm EDT
Two smugglers are facing charges in Thailand after authorities caught them attempting to sneak more than 10 percent of the remaining population of a critically endangered species into the country.
Among the contraband: 54 live ploughshare tortoises (also known as angonoka tortoises), of which there are an estimated 200 to 400 left in the wild.
“The criminals behind this shipment of Ploughshare Tortoises have effectively stolen over 10% of the estimated population in the wild," said Dr. Chris R. Shepherd, deputy director of wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic, per a statement released by the organization. “We urge authorities to go after the criminal masterminds behind these shipments and break the trade chains that threaten these incredibly rare animals."
Environmental conservation and development blog Mongabay reports the two smugglers in question, a 38-year-old Thai man and a 25-year-old woman from Madagascar, were arrested at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi International Airport. The woman's name was on the bag, and the man had attempted to collect it from the luggage carousel.
PHOTO of the confiscated turtles:
Ploughshare tortoises are native only to Madagascar. Because of their unique shell colorations, the animals are vulnerable to frequent disturbance by smugglers, who sell them on the black market as exotic pets, according to The Guardian.
"It is the world's most endangered tortoise," tortoise advocate Eric Goode said to CBS in a 2012 report on the ploughshare. "And it has an incredibly high price on its head. Asian countries love gold and this is a gold tortoise. And so literally, these are like gold bricks that one can pick up and sell."
In the course of filming the CBS report, the team found a full-grown female tortoise Goode estimated might fetch $60,000 on the black market in Asia.
WATCH the CBS report, below:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50136708n
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