Pangolin Trafficking: Nigeria's Unauthorized Trading Iceberg Tip Uncovered

Since the first confirmed pangolin seizure in Nigeria in 2010, the black market for the world's most trafficked animal has exploded, with the country becoming Africa's center for the illegal trafficking of pangolin-related products to East Asia. Pangolin scales have been used in traditional Chinese medicine, resulting in a catastrophic decline in Asian species this century.

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