Guest guest Posted May 25, 2005 Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 ***************************Advertisement*************************** ***************************************************************** This message was forwarded to you by yitzeling. Comment from sender: This article is from The Star Online (http://thestar.com.my) URL: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/5/25/nation/11040560 & sec=nation ________________________ Wednesday May 25, 2005 Seized pythons sold to traders <b>BY CHRISTINA TAN</b> MALACCA: The more than 200 live and dead pythons seized by the Wildlife and National Park Department here last week have been sold. State director Abdul Rahim Othman said a local trader bought the snakes yesterday, following a magistrate’s court order on May 20 for the department to either sell or auction off the reptiles. He said a number of snakes had died but they did not know how many. “The trade accepted all the snakes - live and dead,” he said. The pythons were seized from three men on their way to sell their catch in Penang on May 19, after trapping them in the wilds of Rompin in Pahang and Alor Gajah, near here. Six of the 238 snakes – kept in sacks and small cages in the back of a lorry – were dead when they were unloaded at the Ayer Keroh police station. The live ones were later housed at the Malacca Zoo. Defending the department’s decision not to release the pythons in the wild, Abdul Rahim said: “There are too many of them. It may cause problems as Malacca is a small area and food is limited. They could die of starvation. “The pythons might also attack farm animals, such as chickens and goats.” Furthermore, he added, there were many people just waiting to catch the pythons should the department announce it would release the snakes. “The pythons were not endangered species and selling the python would not cause serious harm to the number of these snakes in the wild,” he said. The snakes were a ‘protected species’, meaning that one needs to have a licence to catch them so that the number taken from the wild is controlled, he clarified. <p> ________________________ Your one-stop information portal: The Star Online http://thestar.com.my http://biz.thestar.com.my http://classifieds.thestar.com.my http://cards.thestar.com.my http://search.thestar.com.my http://star-motoring.com http://star-space.com http://star-jobs.com http://star-ecentral.com http://star-techcentral.com 1995-2004 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Star Publications is prohibited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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