Ant smuggling appears to be a crime in Kenya. Yesterday, Tuesday, the teenagers of Belgian represented a judge in the capital, Nairobi, on charges of “an attempt to smuggle 5,000 ants and wildlife pirates.”
While the defense lawyer confirmed that they were gathering her for pleasure, and they were not aware that their action was illegal, except when the local authorities arrested them on April 5, and two others were arrested.
The authorities have closed a suspect with others, the Kenyan Dennis Ng’ANG’A, the older two years of his 25 -year -old partner, the Vietnamese Duh Hung Noguyen, a computer who specializes in possession From the Kenyan experts, the value of the ants of the sources out of the four is more than one million shillings, or approximately $ 7700, and that the destination of this numbered type was likely to Europe and Asia.
After that, an explanatory statement was issued by Philip Murutehi, deputy head of the environment preservation department at the African Wildlife Foundation in Nairobi, in which he summarized that the ants play a major role in enriching the Kenyan soil, enabling germination, as well as providing food for other types, such as birds, so he warned of the risk of trafficking in them.
Marwati ended his statement by saying: “When you see a healthy forest, like the famous” Nagong “forest, you do not think about what makes it healthy, but in its richness, from bacteria to ants to the largest things. Even if there is a trade, it must be organized, and no one should take our resources simply,” according to his expression.
The features collected by the 19 -year -old Lornoy David and his friend Septe Lodewijxx, who was 19 years old, are packed in the barrels of wool and cotton that were found by the police who were arrested in a guest house in which they were staying, a gender of ants known as the Messor Cephalotes that are incorrect to be present in the open fields and near the roads of the roads, according to what I reviewed Al Arabiya.net is available on the Internet, in which it is also large in size, red, and its home in East Africa in particular.
It is noteworthy that in the past, Kenya faced the smuggling of parts of large wild animals such as elephants, iced century and ants.
But the issues against the four men represent a “shift in smuggling trends, from the famous large mammals to the least well -known but environmentally decisive species,” according to wildlife service.
