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International Fund for Animal Welfare
Thirty-eight Smuggled Gyrfalcons Seized and Released Back to Wild on Kamchatka Peninsula
December 7th, 2008
Thirty-eight endangered Gyrfalcons were confiscated on Tuesday for illegal transport at one of the roads on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far-Eastern Russia. The local veterinarians examined them and found most of them fit enough to be released back to the wild on the next day, Wednesday, November 12. A few of the birds had some wing injuries and needed to stay at the local vet station for rehabilitation. The birds were seized by the local road police. The Gyrfalcons had been transported in a lorry of the local construction workers, the birds were then wrapped with fabric bandages with non-transparent caps on their heads - a typical "smugglers package." The alleged owners...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-12-07)
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