Eagle seller held

JAKARTA: Indonesian police posing as wildlife buyers have arrested a suspected trafficker for selling protected eagles on Facebook, an official said on Wednesday.Acting on a tip-off, authorities in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya swooped on the man’s home on Monday, where they discovered 14 eagles in cages and cardboard boxes,

By our correspondents
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July 09, 2015
JAKARTA: Indonesian police posing as wildlife buyers have arrested a suspected trafficker for selling protected e
agles on Facebook, an official said on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off, authorities in Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya swooped on the man’s home on Monday, where they discovered 14 eagles in cages and cardboard boxes, provincial police force spokesman Argo Yuwono told AFP.

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