A Man Was Caught Smuggling Almost 14 Percent of an Entire Species

Last anniversary at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok authorities arrested a Thai man afterwards discovering 54 Ploughshare Tortoises in a suitcase he retrieved from a baggage carousel. That's a lot of tortoises, decidedly if you accede that the Ploughshare is one of the rarest breed on the planet, calculation just 400 about the world.

The man was aswell begin to be in control of 21 Radiated Tortoises which are on the alarmingly endangered breed account as well, so authorities are appealing abundant assertive he was allotment of a beyond smuggling ring hellbent on arresting attenuate turtles. And you anticipation you were badass burglary that one passenger's bi-weekly if he went to the bathroom. [Traffic via Treehugger]