Officials crack a wildlife smuggling case - when eggs started hatching at the airport

Chris McLennan
Updated February 17 2021 - 1:05pm, first published 1:00pm
Airport police heard smuggled wildlife eggs hatching as a Sydney man tried to return back to Australia. Pictures: Australia Border Force.
Airport police heard smuggled wildlife eggs hatching as a Sydney man tried to return back to Australia. Pictures: Australia Border Force.

The noise of a cracking egg was the undoing of a wildlife trafficker at an Australian airport recently.

Chris McLennan

Chris McLennan

National Rural Property Writer

ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.

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