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05/14/2025 May 14, 2025. In Kenya, two ant smuggling cases recently made global headlines. It's part of a growing problem with biopiracy and the illicit trade in wild animals.

A Kenyan court has sentenced four individuals to either one year in prison or a fine of $7,700 each for attempting to illegally export thousands of live ants, including a rare species, the BBC ...

This week, a court in Kenya sentenced four men to either a year in prison or a fine of £5,800 for trying to smuggle 5,000 ants out of the country. The contraband included highly-valued ants like ...

Teenagers were trafficking rare East African ants, including Messor cephalotes, a large red harvester species, for markets in Europe and Asia. Saturday, Jun 21, 2025 New Delhi o C ...

The magistrate said the 5,400 ants would fetch in excess of €800,000 (£680,000) or $900,000 online in Europe, Asia, and parts of North America.

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Seized queen ants are valued at US$9,300 locally but could have fetched US$1 million in Europe. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Harvester ants, whose industriousness is mentioned by King Solomon in the Bible, keep Kenya's iconic Rift Valley healthy by spreading and mixing grass seeds across the landscape, Martins said.

Images of the confiscated items published by the KWS show numerous containers lined with cotton wool, each containing two or three ants. ... also known as the Giant African Harvester Ant. ...

In Kenya, two Belgian teenagers and two others face charges for smuggling thousands of ants, highlighting a disturbing shift in wildlife trafficking. Authorities discovered the Messor Cephalotes ...