In the News Today: Collaboration between CapeNature, the police’s Kuils River Stock Theft Unit, the Environment Department and the US Fish and Wildlife Service culminated in a raid at a house in the Cape Town suburb of Durbanville where cages of extremely dangerous snakes, spiders and birds were found.
Most of the creatures were species prohibited in private captivity in the Western Cape. Three were adult Mangshan pit vipers – a critically endangered species that occurs in only a small forested, mountainous area in southern China. According to the most recent conservation assessment there are fewer than 500 adults left in the wild.
Nicholas Aitchison was sentenced in the Bellville Regional Court to six years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay R100,000 after… continue reading HERE.
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