Seahorses
Customs officers from France also recently discovered approximately 2,000 dead seahorses, which were being shipped from Guinea to Vietnam. There, shops sell the seahorse carcasses as souvenirs, and in some cases, use the bodies in traditional medicine. This is a big issue as it is estimated that 24 million seahorses each year are pulled from the sea and brought into the illegal trade industry.
Dead Seahorses
Snakes
In Amsterdam, a German man was recently arrested at Schipol Airport after it was found that he had several dozen reptiles, including lizards and snakes, hidden in his luggage. Sadly, 40 of the reptiles were dead. the rest were taken to a local reptile shelter. According to authorities, the man was smuggling the reptiles from South Africa to Germany in order to sell them at a reptile fair.
Smuggled Reptile
