Two ladies were captured at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport and blamed for carrying after 109 live creatures were found in their baggage, Thai authorities say.
Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said on Monday the wild creatures were found in two bags following a x-beam review.
Natural life authorities called to the scene found two white porcupines, two armadillos, 35 turtles, 50 reptiles and 20 snakes in the two bits of luggage.Thai authorities purportedly found 109 creatures in the ladies’ baggage, including 50 reptiles.
Division of Natural Parks and Wildlife Conservation
Thai specialists said the bags had a place with two Indian ladies: Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana Ebrahim, 24, who were because of get onto a trip to the Indian city of Chennai.
The ladies have purportedly been accused of abusing the Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act of 2019, the Animal Disease Act of 2015 and the Customs Act of 2017.
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Creature dealing through air terminals has for some time been an issue in the district. In 2019, a man showing up in Chennai, India, from Bangkok was purportedly kept at the air terminal after customs officials found a month-old panther offspring in his gear.
A March 2022 report by TRAFFIC, a natural life exchange observing office, said that in excess of 70,000 local and fascinating wild creatures – – including their body parts or subsidiaries – – were found in 140 seizures at 18 Indian air terminals somewhere in the range of 2011 and 2020.
“Chennai International Airport, Tamil Nadu, recorded the largest number of natural life seizure episodes, trailed by Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai and Indira Gandhi Airport New Delhi,” the report said.
Top picture: Two armadillos were among the live creatures found in two bags at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. Credit: Department of Natural Parks and Wildlife Conservation