Indonesian man jailed for smuggling 7,000 ‘living fossil’ horseshoe crabs

Mongabay
Dec 3, 2019, 10:24 am151 pts
MEDAN, Indonesia — A court in Indonesia has sentenced a boat captain to 15 months in prison for attempting to smuggle thousands of horseshoe crabs out of the country to Thailand. In its verdict handed down Nov. 27, the Medan District Court in North Sumatra province also ordered Sukandar, 40, to pay 50 million…

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