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The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan ...
Kenyan authorities accused two Belgian teens, one Vietnamese man and one Kenyan man of trying to smuggle ants to sell as ...
Kenyan officials have successfully busted a major wildlife trafficking scheme that involved the attempted illegal transport ...
Four smugglers caught trying to transport thousands of live ants out of Kenya for sale on exotic pet markets in Europe and Asia will be sentenced for trafficking wildlife in a case being hailed as a ...
Two Belgian teenagers, David Lornoy and Seppe Lodewijckx admitted in court that they attempted to traffic thousands of queen ...
Two Belgians, a Vietnamese, and a Kenyan have pleaded guilty to wildlife trafficking and await sentencing on April 23 in ...
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in ...
The KWS says the men were arrested after authorities intercepted live queen ants concealed in specially modified test tubes and syringes. 2,244 test tubes had been designed to sustain the ants for up ...
The two were found in possession of approximately 5,000 live queen ants stored in 2,244 tubes, with an estimated street value of Sh1 million. It is not clear where the suspects had originated with ...
Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, and Seppe Lodewijckx, right, who admitted to charges related to the illegal possession and trafficking of live queen ants to sell as exotic pets, appear at ...
The KWS said authorities had intercepted live queen ants, including from the sought-after Messor Cephalotes species also known as the Giant African Harvester Ant, concealed in modified test tubes ...