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Three men were arrested on Japan’s Amami Islands after being caught with thousands of protected hermit crabs stuffed into suitcases.

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Analysis - Four men were recently arrested and fined for attempting to smuggle more than 5,000 ants out of Kenya. Aiming to sell them as part of the exotic pet trade, these ants were being stored in ...

Wildlife trafficking is a crime against nature which occurs mainly because of consumer demand. Trafficking refers to the illegal smuggling and continued exploitation of wild animals, plants or timber.

"The smuggling of these ants is not merely a wildlife crime. It is an act of biopiracy," the KWS said in a statement issued in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, Xinhua news agency reported.

Authorities said the ants were destined for European and Asian markets in an emerging trend of trafficking lesser-known wildlife species. Belgian nationals Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx ...