Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia

Mongabay
Dec 21, 2016, 11:20 am273 pts
A simple ink pen can conceal two or three freshwater fish larvae. Traffickers switch out the ink cartridge for water, transforming them into tiny tanks used to smuggle even tinier fish out of Colombia and through international airports. Their destination is Asia, where they will be introduced into attractive…

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