Shanghai Customs announced on December 4 that on August 26 this year, Shanghai Customs filed a case to investigate a smuggling of precious animals. In a ticket of live goods transported by air from Mexico to Shanghai, customs officers opened the box and found a total of more than 2,000 live turtles, including 40 spotted box turtles and 1 Central American river turtle. The Forensic Identification Centre has identified both the Spotted Box Turtle and the Mesoamerican River Turtle as protected species in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The Shanghai Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau filed a case for investigation on the same day, and criminally detained the two criminal suspects, Ren X and Xia X, in accordance with the law.
Shanghai Customs Seized Smuggled Imports of Endangered Spotted Box Turtles (Photo by Zhang Jielu Xiaoyu) According to customs anti-smuggling officers, the live turtles involved in the case were ordered by Ren and Xia from Mexican suppliers, imported in the name of a Shanghai agricultural development company, and tried to smuggle endangered live turtles into non-endangered turtles, and then waited for the opportunity to illegally sell them for profit. In recent years, the price of endangered live turtles in the domestic live turtle breeding circle has been high, and the online shopping price of some rare species is more than 10,000 yuan, and there is a large profit margin for smuggling.
A Central American river turtle that has been sent to the zoo for foster care. At present, the batch of endangered live turtles has been coordinated by the Shanghai Wildlife Conservation and Management Station and sent to the zoo for foster care, and the rest of the endangered live turtles are released normally. Disclaimer: This article is reproduced for the purpose of transmitting more information. If there is a source labeling error or infringement of your legitimate rights and interests, please contact the author with the proof of ownership, we will correct and delete it in time, thank you. ( Source: Oriental Network)