wildlife trafficking
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Lizard in Your Luggage? Artificial Intelligence Is Now Being Used to Detect Wildlife Trafficking
Blue-tongue lizards and sulphur-crested cockatoos are among the native animals frequently smuggled overseas. While the number of live animals seized by the Australian Government has tripled since 2017, the full scale of the problem eludes us as authorities don’t often know where and how wildlife is trafficked. Now, we can add a new technology to…
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Hundreds Of Exotic Turtles And Tortoises Wrapped In Duct Tape Found In Airport Luggage
The Indian star tortoise native to parts of India has been declining in the wild since at least 2000. Why? People want them as pets. A stark reminder of this fact came on Sunday, after authorities in the Philippine’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport found some 1,500 live turtles and tortoises inside four abandoned suitcases that…