Ten endangered flamingos was saved after the smuggers were caught trying to carry them out of the tunisia, toward the customs body of the country.
The birds of the birds are full of crates with wings, legs and torsos, the force posted online.
Flamingos were rescued near the Algerian border on Sunday after “loading on a truck with a tunision license plate”, officials said in a statement.
The birds have now safely returned to their natural habitat, the officials added: “As part of the effort to preserve the species.”
But it is not clear which action is taken against alleged smugglers.
It is illegal to hunt or smuggle the flamingos in the tunis because they are protected by Tunisia.
Other threats of flamingos include pollution and increase in temperatures caused by climatic changes caused by people, according to conservators, causing to reduce flamingos habitats of wetlands.
Higher flamingo, or Phoenicapterus Russus In order to use its scientific name, the international Union is listed as a endangered species for nature conservation.
However, there are good news, because the data collected in the past decade showed that some increased populations.
The latest estimates suggest that there are at least half a million left in the wild.
North Africa is one stop among many for these migration birds, which have been observed in Europe, West Africa and Asia.
The hot points of observation of birds for flamingos include the island of the Virgin on the southeast coast of Tunisia, and the Laguna Korba further north.
