Police say they have rescued yet another monkey from a Negev Bedouin village this morning, as cops continue trailing a wildlife trafficking ring said to be smuggling monkeys and lion cubs into Israel by way of Jordan and Egypt.
The injured monkey was found by Southern District police near the village of al-Athamin, south of Beersheba.
It was transferred to the Nature and Parks Authority for medical examination and treatment.
All in all, police have rescued 12 monkeys and four lion cubs in recent weeks, the bulk of them from Bedouin towns in the Negev.
Law enforcement officials suspect that smugglers have been using drones to fly monkeys and lion cubs into Israel by way of Egypt and Jordan, a police spokesman confirmed to The Times of Israel on Sunday.
Yesterday, police located two illegally held monkeys, one trapped in a Ramat Gan apartment and the other near a farm in Daburiyya.
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