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The World of Animal Poaching

From a king cobra in a chip container to cockatoos in water bottles and fish under a dress, some of the exotic animals that are illegally trafficked around the world.

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The World of Animal Poaching

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  1. The world of animal poaching

  2. A policeman holds a water bottle with a yellow-crested cockatoo put inside for illegal trade, at the customs office of Tanjung Perak port in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, May 4, 2015. Police arrested one man traveling by ship from Makassar, Sulawesi with 22 of the endangered cockatoos held inside water bottles. REUTERS/AntaraFoto/RisyalHidayat

  3. Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty to illegal possession and trafficking of garden ants, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Law Courts, in Nairobi, Kenya, April 15, 2025. REUTERS/MonicahMwangi

  4. A king cobra snake seen coming out of container of chips in this undated handout photo obtained July 25, 2017. A Los Angeles man was arrested after federal prosecutors said he arranged to smuggle into the United States three live, highly venomous king cobra snakes hidden in potato chip canisters. United States Attorney's Office Central District of California/Handout via REUTERS

  5. Rescued baby iguanas are seen in a cardboard box, in an office of the Ministry of Environment in San Jose, May 25, 2015. Officers from the national police force of Costa Rica rescued 81 iguanas that had been confined to a box at a hotel in San Jose. It is presumed that the captive iguanas were the subject of an exotic pet smuggling, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Public...

  6. A keeper gives peanut to an orangutan inside a cage shortly after it arrived from Thailand at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, November 12, 2015. Fourteen orangutans smuggled into Thailand illegally were sent back to Indonesia, but the operation was not without incident -- one of the powerful apes tore a wildlife officer's finger off when he tried to put them in cages. REUTERS/Beawiharta

  7. A baby orangutan lies in a plastic crate, after it was seized from a wildlife trafficking syndicate, at a police office in Pekanbaru, Riau province, in this November 9, 2015. According to local media, police investigators arrested individuals from a wildlife trafficking syndicate who were attempting to smuggle out three orangutan babies, ranging between 6 to 12 months of age, from their forest...

  8. An officer holds a baby saltwater crocodile at BKSDA (Natural Resources Conservation Board) office in Yogyakarta August 10, 2011. The reptile is one of eight baby saltwater crocodiles which survived during a move to Gembiraloka Zoo in Yogyakarta, after officers confiscated 27 of the species as they were being smuggled from Central Kalimantan province to Central Java for trade. REUTERS/DwiOblo

  9. African grey parrots rescued from an illegal trader by Ugandan officials at the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo border crossing are seen at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe, southwest of the capital Kampala January 12, 2011. REUTERS/James Akena

  10. A wildlife department official holds a Malayan sun bear for the media at its head office in Kuala Lumpur, March 24, 2015. It was among other animals, including juvenile eagles and a slow loris, seized by the wildlife department during an operation against illegal wildlife traders earlier this month. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

  11. A plastic bag containing thousands of confiscated elvers (young eels) are shown to media at a cargo terminal in Ninoy Aquino International airport in Manila July 8, 2012. Airport authorities confiscated some two million elvers, weighing around 949 kg. The elvers were supposed to be shipped to Hong Kong, local media reported. According to Philippine law fingerlings are not to be exported unless...

  12. A worker holds a green turtle (Cheloniamydas) after unloading it from a truck in Denpasar, capital city of the province of Bali, May 19, 2010. Police said they foiled an attempt to smuggle 71 green turtles for food. The turtles, caught in the waters off Sulawesi Island, have an average weight of 100 kilograms (220 pounds). REUTERS/Murdani Usman

  13. A woman on a flight from Singapore to Melbourne shows the 51 live tropical fish hidden in a specially designed apron under her skirt in this handout photograph from the Australian Customs Service on June 3, 2005. Customs officers became suspicious after hearing "flipping" noises coming from the vicinity of her waist, and an examination revealed 15 plastic water-filled bags holding concealed...

  14. Tarantula's confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are shown in this December 3, 2010 handout photo. A German national who shipped the tarantulas into the United States through the mail pleaded guilty to a federal smuggling charge, prosecutors said. REUTERS/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Handout

  15. A Mexican Coyote, that had been rescued with other animals while being trafficked illegally, is seen through the bars of an enclosure at the Federal Wildlife Conservation Center on the outskirts of Mexico City May 20, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

  16. Black spotted freshwater turtles are pictured after they were seized in a raid, at Sindh Wildlife Department in Karachi, Pakistan, April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

  17. A white-headed capuchin monkey is fed during a news conference in San Salvador October 29, 2014. Authorities of the Ministry of Enviroment of El Salvador rescued about 100 endangered animals abandoned in a dumpster near the border with Honduras, local media reported. More than 90 turtles, monkeys and parrots were found in plastic bags ready to be smuggled into Salvadorean territory....

  18. A couple of Spider Monkeys, that had been found on a bus inside a bag with three dead monkeys, rest in a hammock at the Federal Wildlife Conservation Center on the outskirts of Mexico City May 20, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

  19. A slow loris is carried in a cage by a wildlife department official at the head office in Kuala Lumpur March 24, 2015. It was among other animals, including juvenile eagles and a Malayan sun bear cub, seized by the wildlife department during an operation against illegal wildlife traders earlier this month. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

  20. A three-month old white-cheeked gibbon looks from inside a cage after Thai police arrested a citizen of the United Arab Emirates at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok May 13, 2011. Thai police arrested a UAE citizen as he was preparing to fly first class from Bangkok to Dubai with various rare and endangered animals in his suitcases, which included four leopards, one Malayan sun bear, one...

  21. A Black Rattlesnake, which had been rescued with other animals while being trafficked illegally, is seen inside a plastic cylinder at the Federal Wildlife Conservation Center on the outskirts of Mexico City May 20, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

  22. Terrapins are seen during a news conference in San Salvador October 29, 2014. Authorities of the Ministry of Enviroment of El Salvador rescued about 100 endangered animals abandoned in a dumpster near the border with Honduras, local media reported. More than 90 turtles, monkeys and parrots were found in plastic bags ready to be smuggled into Salvadorean territory. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

  23. A serpent eagle sits inside its cage at Manila's police district August 18, 2011. Police seized 69 mynah, 17 assorted turtles and a serpent eagle from illegal traders and turned them over to the Manila zoo, according to authorities. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo

  24. A veterinarian holds a Mexican Tarantula, which had been rescued with other animals while being trafficked illegally, at the Federal Wildlife Conservation Center on the outskirts of Mexico City May 20, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

  25. Falcons are seen at the offices of Sindh Wildlife Police after they were seized in Karachi, Pakistan October 13, 2015. Twenty-two falcons were seized by the Rangers paramilitary force after they were discovered during a snap inspection along a toll booth, as they were being smuggled from Peshawar to Karachi. The birds were later handed over to Sindh Wildlife Department, reported local media....

  26. Long-tailed macaque babies are seen inside a basket as police seized a truck smuggling them from Vietnam to China, in Changsha, Hunan province January 8, 2015. Police arrested 11 people trying to smuggle at least 100 long-tailed macaques, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer

  27. An official of Indonesian Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) shows scorpions confiscated from being smuggled out of the country, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, May 24, 2019. Antara Foto/Nyoman Budhiana/ via REUTERS

  28. A turtle is seen as Cambodian police officers handle over wild animals to members of the WildAid NGO, after they were recovered from smugglers in Kandal province, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

  29. Cambodian police officers hold a python before handing it to members of the NGO WildAid, after it was recovered from smugglers, in Kandal province, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia March 29, 2016. REUTERS/SamrangPring

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