Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends

Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species. Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx were arrested on April 5 with 5,000 ants at a guest house. They appeared distraught during their appearance before a magistrate, and said they were collecting the ants for fun and did not know that it was illegal. In a separate criminal case, Kenyan Dennis Ng’ang’a and Vietnamese Duh Hung Nguyen also have been charged with illegal trafficking, following their arrests while in possession of 400 ants.

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