Officials in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu seized 8 kilograms of ambergris, commonly known as whale faeces, worth a little more than $1 million and arrested two suspects caught with the contraband in a sting operation. Ambergris is a rare and highly valuable commodity that has been globally coveted by the perfume industry for hundreds of years. “We’ve seen these stories where fishermen communities have found ambergris and it completely changed their fortunes overnight, simply because they are in countries where it's legal to trade them,” Sumanth Bindumadhav, senior manager of wildlife disaster response at Humane ... (full story)