Prosecutor says official from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was arrested en route to a conference on protecting endangered speciesEight people in the US have been charged with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildlife official arrested while travelling to a conference on protecting endangered species.The group - consisting of the Cambodian official, a colleague in that country's wildlife agency and six people connected to a Hong Kong-based company - were involved in breeding long-tailed macaques for scientific and academic research, supplying them to labs in Florida and Texas. Continue reading...
Cambodian wildlife official among eight charged in US with smuggling endangered monkeys
17. listopadu 2022 9:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian