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30,000 Animals Rescued From Illegal Captivity in the Largest Wildlife Trafficking Raid in History

INTERPOL recently executed the largest-ever edition of its annual series of coordinated of raids to dismantle criminal shipments and networks of trafficked and poached wildlife. Called Operation Thunder, some 30,000 live animals were seized in 4,620 raids across 134 countries, 30% more than last year. INTERPOL identified 1,100 suspects and issued 69 notices of criminal […] The post 30,000 Animals Rescued from Illegal Captivity in the Largest Wil…

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Pangolines, birds, butterflies, spiders, golden lions, tigers, etc., but also primate bones and skulls, ivory, parts of reptiles, corals and vegetables in huge quantities. It is impressive the summary of what has been seized by Interpol and reported last week from the headquarters of the international criminal police organization in Lyon. In total, more than 4,600 wild species seizures have been made in 134 countries during a month of operations…

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Traffic in live animals reached record levels in 2025, said on Thursday the Interpol police coordination organization after an operation that allowed the seizure of nearly 30,000 animals and the identification of 1,100 suspects. The post Trafficking in live animals: Interpol announces new records appeared first on LesEco.ma.

30,000 live animals, tens of thousands of cubic meters of illegally harvested timber, nearly 6 tons of bushmeat (meat from wild animals, particularly those from tropical regions)... This is just part of the enormous haul seized by authorities in 134 countries during a coordinated operation against wildlife trafficking, dubbed Thunder 2025. In one month, 4,640 seizures were made and nearly 1,100 suspects arrested. A record for this operation, whi…

Interpol and Omd's Operation Thunder 2025 has revealed an increasingly sophisticated criminal ecosystem. It is capable of linking fauna, flora, timber and organised crime in a single illegal chain. A global operation against the illegal trafficking of wild fauna and flora has led to the seizure of almost 30 thousand live animals and to the identification of 1,100 suspects. Police, customs, border security and forest and wildlife authorities from…

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Notizie.com broke the news in on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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