{"id":149159,"date":"2025-09-17T06:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:47:08","slug":"hundreds-of-exotic-animals-rescued-in-brazils-largest-wildlife-trafficking-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149159\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of exotic animals rescued in Brazil\u2019s largest wildlife trafficking raid"},"content":{"rendered":"
The highly structured gang has operated for decades, with some responsible for the mass hunting of wild animals while others transported them to urban centres for sale.<\/p>\n
The operation, involving more than 1000 officers, targeted a gang trafficking animals, weapons, and ammunition. Photo \/ Pablo Porciuncula, AFP<\/p>\n
One group specialised in primates, hunting, drugging and selling monkeys to other gang members.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnimal trafficking is not just cruel \u2013 it\u2019s a death sentence. Many animals die before even reaching the market, which shows the sheer brutality of this trade,\u201d Bernardo Rossi, State Secretary of Environment and Sustainability, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The gang also traded weapons and ammunition, which were used to commit various other crimes, according to police official Felipe Curi.<\/p>\n
Investigators identified some of the buyers of these wild animals, who fuel \u201cthe entire criminal chain\u201d, said the police statement, without giving further details.<\/p>\n
Wildlife trafficking is a major challenge in Brazil, with an estimated 38 million animals taken from the wild every year, according to the Brazilian NGO RENCTAS (National Network to Combat Wildlife Trafficking).<\/p>\n
Ninety per cent of these animals die before reaching the final consumer.<\/p>\n
-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The highly structured gang has operated for decades, with some responsible for the mass hunting of wild animals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1914,1313,100471,64,63,18084,100474,55388,100470,13058,100469,1899,25229,4717,43155,34827,58668,1787,21033,1861,1158,44375,38816,128,100472,54919,338,100473],"class_list":["post-149159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-against","tag-animals","tag-arrested","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-biggest","tag-biodiverse","tag-brazilian","tag-brazils","tag-ever","tag-exotic","tag-have","tag-hundreds","tag-in","tag-largest","tag-most","tag-nation","tag-of","tag-operation","tag-people","tag-police","tag-raid","tag-rescued","tag-science","tag-traffickers","tag-trafficking","tag-wildlife","tag-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}