Name: 肯亞機場驚傳！男子走私2200隻活體螞蟻遭查獲！- 新聞 (CORRECTION: Kenya busts man smuggling 2,200 live ants through airport - News)
Uploaded: 2026-03-13T17:18:13.000Z
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Kenyan authorities arrested and charged a Chinese national with attempting to smuggle 2200 live ants in his luggage.

肯亞當局逮捕了一名中國籍男子，指控他試圖將2200隻活體螞蟻夾帶在行李中走私。

基礎被動語態

Court filings seen by Reuters say 27 year old Jang Kekun was arrested at Nairobi's main airport on Tuesday while he was trying to leave the country.

路透社看到的法院文件顯示，27歲的Jang Kekun週二在奈洛比主要機場試圖出境時被捕。

Ant aficionados pay large sums to maintain colonies.

螞蟻愛好者會花大錢來維持螞蟻的群落。

The arrest comes amid a rise in cases of smuggling the insects.

此次逮捕發生在走私昆蟲的案件增加之際。

Last year, prosecutors accused suspects of being part of an ant gang who tried to move the live insects inside plastic syringes packed with cotton balls.

去年，檢察官指控嫌犯是一個螞蟻幫的成員，他們試圖將活體昆蟲裝在塞滿棉球的塑膠針筒裡運送。

Four men were charged $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants.

四名男子因試圖販運數千隻螞蟻，每人被罰款7,700美元。

Experts said the case signaled a shift in biopiracy from trophies like elephant ivory to lesser known species.

專家表示，此案標誌著生物盜竊的重點從大象牙等戰利品轉向較不知名的物種。

Investigators said a search of zhang's luggage recovered 2,238 ants, including 1,948 packed in test tubes and the rest in three rolls of soft tissue papers.

調查人員表示，搜查張某的行李發現了2,238隻螞蟻，其中1,948隻裝在試管裡，其餘的則裝在三卷軟式衛生紙中。

Kenya's Wildlife Service said a similar consignment of ants had been seized in Bangkok on Tuesday that originated from Kenya, indicating the existence of a widespread and organized ant smuggling network.

肯亞野生動物管理局表示，週二在曼谷也查獲了一批類似的螞蟻貨運，該批貨物來自肯亞，這表明存在一個廣泛且有組織的螞蟻走私網絡。