Spider Smuggler Snared in Sting Operation
Around the world, tarantulas are kept as pets but many popular species are endangered in the wild. Photo credit: christopher.woo / Creative Commons ” Operation Spiderman “—which had nothing to do with the fictional crime-fighting web-slinger—came to an end this weekend with the arrest of Sven Koppler, a German man thought to be responsible for the smuggling of thousands of endangered spiders. Authorities began tracking Koppler after intercepting a package concealing 3… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Read more:
Spider Smuggler Snared in Sting Operation
Posted by
on December 6, 2010. Filed under
Lifestyle.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the
RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry