Indonesian arrested selling Sumatran tiger skin
Three Indonesian men paraded with a seized Sumatran tiger skin and four tiger foetus in a jar, after they were caught by the wildlife enforcement team as they tried to sell these items in Pekanbaru, Riau. Another man has been arrested in Aceh trying to sell a tiger skin to an undercover police officer. – AFP pic, January 6, 2020.
AN INDONESIAN caught trying to sell the skin of a critically endangered Sumatran tiger has been arrested, police said today, highlighting the national problem of animal trafficking. Authorities in Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra island, arrested the man last week after he offered to sell the skin to an undercover officer, posing as a buyer, for 90 million rupiah .
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