Wildlife smuggling

Malaysia clamps down on wildlife smuggling: five operations in a fortnight

Wildlife authorities in Malaysia have arrested five people and seized 209 live wild animals destined for the illegal exotic pet trade, the vast majority of them songbirds, about to be smuggled out of the country by a single trader. 

In one of five separate operations in the last two weeks of February, the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia (Perhilitan) officers foiled an attempt in the east coast State of Pahang to smuggle 156 White-rumped Shamas Copsychus malabaricus, three Common Hill Mynas Gracula religiosa and six Red Junglefowls Gallus gallus.