Wildlife Smuggling from Thailand to India: Venomous Snakes and Rare Species Seized
TL;DR
Indian customs intercepted a passenger from Thailand attempting to smuggle nearly 100 wildlife creatures, including lizards, tarantulas, possums, and other exotic animals, highlighting a troubling rise in wildlife trafficking driven by the exotic pet trade, with most seizures occurring in India.
- Smuggler traveling from Thailand stopped with lizards, tarantulas, possums, authorities in India say CBS News
- India: Man arrested with dozens of venomous vipers at Mumbai airport BBC
- Smuggler with bag full of venomous viper snakes stopped by India customs FOX Weather
- Unique species in air passenger baggage exposes global reach of Thailand-India wild life smuggling Traffic.org
- Snakes on a plane expose Thailand-India trafficking: NGO ucanews.com
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