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Wildlife officials arrest tourist, guide [1]

A Ukraine tourist and his Sri Lankan guide were taken into custody by Wildlife Conservation officials in Minneriya for allegedly collecting butterflies and several species of other insects endemic to Sri Lanka.

Publication Date: 
05/05/2009
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) [2]
Tags:
Wildlife [3], Butterflies [4], Poaching [5], Sri Lanka [6], Colombo [7]
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-mirror-sri-lanka
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/butterflies
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poaching
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sri-lanka
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/colombo