Tag: traffickers

Rio’s stray bullets give innocent nowhere to hide

by Sebastian Smith Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — While the fighting in Rio de Janeiro’s crime war is done by commando-style police and heavily armed drug traffickers, a growing number of the victims look quite different: innocent, joyful children like Maria Eduarda. Firefights erupt in densely packed, poor favela neighborhoods, leaving thousands of people with nowhere to hide each time the shooting, involving Kalashnikovs and other military grade rifles, begins. AFP has investigated the […]

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Wildlife experts inspect health of rare Galapagos tortoises recently rescued from traffickers

PIURA, Peru (Reuters) — Wildlife experts from Peru and Ecuador inspected the health of 27 baby Galapagos tortoises, a highly endangered species, that were recently rescued from a group of traffickers trying to take them to Europe, according to local media reports. A group of members from Ecuador’s National Forestry and Wildlife Service (Serfor) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said the tortoises were in good health. After a morphological evaluation, specialists concluded the […]

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