Customs organizations India stopped and arrested an air passenger traveling from Thailand after saying that he had been surprised in smuggling tens of poisonous snakes And other small reptiles in the lively city of Mumbai.
The poisonous snakes, which included 44 Indonesian vipers, were “hidden in recorded luggage,” Mumbai customs agents said on Sunday.
“An Indian national arriving from Thailand has been arrested,” the statement added.
The officials said that the passenger also hidden three vipers with spider -tailed horns – poisonous snakes which mainly target small prey such as birds – and five Asian leaf turtles.
Mumbai Customs shared images of bright colors reptiles on X.
Mumbai Customs regularly shares photographs from his crises. Most seem to be drugs, interceptions of gold or related to cash, some travelers trying to hide illegal substances “inside body cavities”, according to the border agency, but the illegal smuggling of exotic fauna is relatively common.
In February, the agents arrested a smuggler carrying five Gibbons Siamang, a kind of small disappeared monkeys from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
According to the post, the animals were “ingeniously hidden” in plastic boxes and cages, which were placed inside the passenger cart bag.
In November 2024, the agents discovered a set of 12 exotic turtles, which the fauna office identified as Japanese turtles and scorpion mud turtles, smuggling by a passenger from Bangkok, Thailand. A month earlier, the staff intercepted two passengers from Bangkok with two Visayan calaos, birds generally found in the Philippine wetlands, on their person.
In September 2024, the authorities interrupted a “significant case of baking of wildlife” when the staff recovered five Caiman crocodile babies.
A 2024 Wildlife trafficking report By the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed that “the world scope and the scale of wildlife crime remain substantial”. Convulsions from 2015 to 2021 indicate “an illegal trade in 162 countries and territories affecting around 4,000 plant and animal species”, of which 3,250s are listed in the Convention on International Trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora.
The most frequently affected species of plants and animals are rare orchids, succulents, reptiles, fish, birds and mammals, and their traffic has played a major role in their “local” or “global” extinctions, indicates the report.
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Meanwhile, in Canada, Risk species According to Canada, cougars, geese, lynx, moose, crabs, eels, lobsters, narwhals, turtles and wolves, according to the Financial Intelligence Agency.
Traffic also has negative effects on the environment as well as human longevity, as it can disrupt the balance of ecosystems and have an impact climate changewhich in its turn damages the natural advantages that humans derive from their environment.
“Wildlife crime also threatens the socio-economic benefits that people derive from nature, especially as a source of income, employment, food, medicine, culture, etc.
Wild crimes are often orchestrated by large -scale criminal companies that are anchored in roles through the global commercial chain, including in reproductive and storage methods, and are able to manipulate and exploit weaknesses and inconsistencies in regulations.
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