Sri Lanka growing as smuggling hub for star tortoises mainly collected in India

In a secretly recorded video, a man is heard confidently saying, “I have 560 pieces of live tortoises of size 5-12 centimetres [2-5 inches] and the tortoises can be sent through India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia as I know helpful people at these airports.” This took place inside an opulent shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand’s […]

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