7 Endangered Animals Rescued From A Chinese Smuggler In San Fernando, Pampanga
7 Endangered animals were safely rescued from a Chinese national. DENR regional office in San Fernando, Pampanga took the animals’ custody.
The animals were claimed by the agents of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
Cr1minal charges against Chinese Zhang Peimin were filed for violating Wildlife Resources Conservation Act.
Ricardo Diaz, NBI regional director stated that Zhang Peimin was caught for possessing of 4 Pangolins and 3 Palawan cobras, which were both extinct.
The said animals were under the “Red list” – which are already threaten3d with extinction due to very low population chances.
Ricardo Diaz stated that security personnel caught Zhang at the Manuel Roxas Avenue Yokohama intersection where they recovered a box that contains the animals inside his private vehicle, Mitsubishi Grandis.
Fred Sadueste, wildlife enforcement chief of DENR said: “Pangolins are not endemic to Central Luzon and neither are these cobras. It is possible that these animals may have been smuggled from Palawan, where both species are found natively.”
DENR said that Zhang does not own any Certificate of Wildlife Registration, permit, or any Wildlife Collectors permit.
Also, the Pangolins are considered as vulnerable species already, and among the terrestrial threatened list of species.
Pangolins, became one of the illegally traded species in Southeast Asia, having live Pangolins in the black market ranging up to 1,000 dollars. Its meat value is 300 dollars per kilogram, and its scales priced at 3,000 per kilogram.
The confiscated Pangolins and cobras that were confiscated will be transferred to a secured wildlife facility, and will be cared and treated until they are back to their healthy, and to be released in to the wild.
Not only these two species are endangered, smuggled, and being ill-treated, there are still a lot to be saved and to be rescued, one at a time, like our Philippine crocodiles and our national bird, the Philippine eagle.