The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 02/19/2010 5:27 PM
The NGO ProFauna Indonesia is working with law enforcement authorities to uncover the illegal trade of rare animals, which has sent two perpetrators to prison in the past two months.
An unnamed rare animal trader was sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment for illegally selling six kukang, or Sunda Loris (Nycticebus coucang), in East Java, ProFauna announced in a press statement recently.
However, police have yet to arrest another trader, found in possession of 15 kukangs, 15 Javan langurs (Trachypithecus auratus), a white-bellied sea-eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) and a leopard cat (Felis bengalensis) seized during a raid recently.
On Jan. 11, Jambi District Court sentenced a man to 3 years and 10 months in prison and fined him Rp 1 million for killing a critically endangered Sumatran tiger (at Rimbo Jambi Zoo) and for selling its organs. (nkn)
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