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by Lisbeth Fog

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Postcard from Colombia: turtle and frog smuggler goes to jail

News from The Scientist 2000, 1(1):20000706-07

Published

6 July 2000

Denis González-Ayarza, a citizen of Panama, is about to go to jail in Colombia. He was caught on 12th May at the International Airport in Bogotá, where he was trying to smuggle out 344 'mata-mata' turtles and 195 tiny Dendrobates sp. frogs in his suitcase.

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