Animals
Couple Arrested for Smuggling 13 Percent of a Tortoise Species
Recently, Thailand authorities arrested a couple who were trying to smuggle 54 ploughshare tortoises and 21 radiated tortoises. However, it isn't the total number of tortoises that were snuggled that's making the news. It is the fact that the 54 ploughshare tortoises are among the of the just 400 ploughshare tortoises that are living in the world now, meaning that the duo attempted to smuggle 13 percent of the tortoise species in a suitcase.
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