Police find another trafficked monkey during raid in Kafr Qasim

Police found another trafficked Guenon monkey during a raid on an office in Kafr Qasim earlier today.

Detectives and Border Police officers found the monkey locked in a cage, apparently abandoned, and handed it over to the Nature and Parks Authority for further treatment.

Police have been trying to track down members of a wildlife trafficking ring responsible for smuggling monkeys and lion cubs into Israel via Jordan and Egypt for over a month now.

Officers rescued the first trafficked monkey on March 5, and since then have tracked down a total of 32 monkeys in Israel. Last week, police found four monkeys within a 24-hour window.

A spokesperson for the Nature and Parks Authority calls the recent monkey findings the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the phenomenon of wildlife smuggling.