Lorises appear to be the preferred target of wildlife traffickers, turning up in markets around the South-East Asian region and in seizures-including the dozen found in a traveller’s suitcase at Suvarnabhumi International Airport this morning. Authorities at Thailand’s largest and busiest airport found the lorises stuffed in cloth bags inside the suitcase of a Kuwait bound traveller, who was also carrying 11 pythons and one marmoset in her luggage.
Alert officers at the luggage-scanning counter of the airport noticed something odd about the x-ray images of the woman’s bag and found the animals when they opened it for examination…