Two men have been sentenced for transporting live native lizards from Australia in the post to the United States. The Australian Border Force (ABF) seized a package in a post office in Broome, Western Australia, which contained 15 lizardsĀ in multiple plastic tubs with punctured holes for airflow. The men aged 31 and 39 concealed the lizards in gift-wrapped containers and inserted them into a larger shipping box containing souvenirs, authorities said on March 9. Despite knowing it is illegal to export native Australian animals, they admitted traveling from the U.S. to Broome in 2018 to capture spiny-tailed lizards to resell them in the U.S. Two packages of lizards had been sent back to Miami, Florida and Medford, Oregon. The 39-year-old was sentenced to three years of supervised release where he will spend the last part of his sentence outside in the community, 300 days of home detention, and also ordered …