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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 03:29 PM Mar 2019

More than 1,500 live turtles found duct-taped in suitcases

Cruelty or a buck or two!!!!


More than 1,500 live turtles found duct-taped in suitcases
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The turtles belonged to four different species, three of which are listed as vulnerable.

(CNN)More than 1,500 live exotic turtles have been found wrapped in duct tape and packed into suitcases at an airport in the Philippines.

The animals, which had a total worth of 4.5 million Philippine pesos ($87,000), were probably set to be sold, the country's Bureau of Customs agency said in a Facebook post.

They had been smuggled onto a flight from Hong Kong, and were found in four unclaimed pieces of luggage at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Three of the species discovered -- the star, redfoot and African spurred tortoises -- are classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) but are frequently sold as part of the illegal exotic pet trade.

The fourth species, the red-eared slider turtle, is commonly kept as a pet around the world...........................





The animals were packed into four unclaimed suitcases.



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More than 1,500 live turtles found duct-taped in suitcases (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2019 OP
When just one would be enough Bob Loblaw Mar 2019 #1
k. and r. for exposure..nt. Stuart G Mar 2019 #2

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
2. k. and r. for exposure..nt.
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 10:18 AM
Mar 2019

I found this story today, and posted this in Weird News.

I didn't know it had been posted before, but thought it have been somewhere at DU. I guess you can't make this stuff up, but this story counts as one of the strangest I have ever read. Of course, this story like others, is all about making money, but this is a turtle twist that I have never seen in many years of looking at "News."

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