Animal poaching and smuggling

South Africa begins injecting rhino horns with radioactive materials to curb poaching

MOKOPANE, South Africa. -- A South African college launched an anti-poaching marketing campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are innocent for the animals however which might be detected by customs...

German customs present tarantulas hidden in spongecake packing containers after smuggling bust

Customs officers have launched photographs from a seizure of roughly 1,500 younger tarantulas discovered inside plastic containers that had been hidden in chocolate spongecake packing containers shipped to an airport in western GermanyBERLIN -- Arachnophobes beware: Customs officers...

Over 90 arrests made in world crackdown on environmental crime within the Amazon Basin

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Property value over $64 million have been seized and 94 individuals arrested as a part of a multinational legislation enforcement operation focusing on environmental crime within the Amazon Basin.The crackdown, coordinated by the United Arab...

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