Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water
An unprecedented number of packages containing live ants and cockroaches have been detected and seized in New South Wales, cutting off illegal international wildlife trade.
Since April this year, a record 27 postal consignments containing ants and invertebrates have been seized in the state.
These interceptions uncovered approximately 500 Australian native ants, including queens critical to colony reproduction, as well as nine Australian native giant burrowing cockroaches – one of the world’s heaviest species.
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