Kinixys homeana smuggled into U.S. find new home at Dallas Zoo
Fifteen threatened tortoises smuggled into the U.S. and confiscated in Miami are now recuperating at the Dallas Zoo. The Home’s hinge-back tortoises were smuggled into the U.S. on a plane in November. U.S. Fish and Wildlife inspectors intercepted the shipment. When no one claimed them, a call went out for accredited groups to take them, the zoo said. The Dallas Zoo stepped up with an offer to take all the tortoises and sent boxes for Fish and Wildlife to FedEx the tortoises back in. “We figured the most important thing was to start triage,” said Ruston Hartdegen, the zoo’s curator of herpetology. Click the link to read more…
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