Police foil sale of 24 protected animals in Indonesia's East Java


Moluccan cockatoos are among the endangered animals seised. - TheStar file pic

JAKARTA (Xinhua): Indonesia's East Java provincial police and the local natural resources conservation centre have thwarted the sale of 24 protected animals, a police officer has said.

The police seized 15 Moluccan cockatoos, one crested hawk-eagle, and eight East Javan langurs, the East Java provincial police's spokesman Senior Commissioner Gatot Repli Handoko said in a press statement in the province's capital of Surabaya on Wednesday.

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