More than 250 endangered species, including snakes and lovebirds, have been seized at the UK border in a single month, new figures have revealed. The crackdown was part of an annual international ...

Hundreds of endangered species seized in crackdown on international wildlife smuggling. Live snakes, tarantulas and lovebirds have been found crammed ...

A craze for exotic pets is thought to be behind a dramatic surge in the trafficking of tarantulas into the UK. In just one month this year, officers seized more than 2,000 live tarantulas at once, 302 ...

One Bangladeshi smuggler was unintentionally shot dead as the Border Security Force (BSF) tried to foil a cross-border smuggling attempt in West Bengal's Nadia district. According to sources, the ...