The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

The KWS said authorities had intercepted live queen ants, including from the sought-after Messor Cephalotes species also known as the Giant African Harvester Ant, concealed in modified test tubes ...

The KWS said authorities had intercepted live queen ants, including from the sought-after Messor Cephalotes species also known as the Giant African Harvester Ant, concealed in modified test tubes ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service says they cracked a landmark case involving the illegal trafficking and biopiracy of live ants including the ecologically significant messor cephalotes, also known as Giant ...

In Kenya, two Belgian teenagers and two others face charges for smuggling thousands of ants, highlighting a disturbing shift in wildlife trafficking. Authorities discovered the Messor Cephalotes ...

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The ants in question are the sought-after Messor Cephalotes species also known as the Giant African Harvester Ant. Kenyan authorities, which valued the ants at 1 million shillings ($7,700, €6,819), ...

but the Messor cephalotes—a.k.a. the giant African harvester ant—was amog the haul and positioned as a “highly sought-after” variety that can fetch a high price among collectors. Authorities valued ...