Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

Mongabay
Oct 31, 2018, 3:09 pm244 pts
Authorities in Madagascar confiscated 7,347 radiated tortoises (Astrochelys radiata) from wildlife traffickers on Oct. 24, just months after a similar bust led to the seizure of nearly 10,000 tortoises of the same species in a nearby town. “There’s this buzz in our ears of this vacuuming sound coming from…

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