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Disturbing world-wide failure in investigating the illegal international wildlife trade with hardly any criminals ending up in the dock

Despite several high-profile seizures during the past four years, there have been hardly any proper investigations into the international illegal wildlife trade and few prosecutions of the criminals involved, a new analysis of pubic and court records has revealed. ....

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Nigeria emerges as Africa's primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales


Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales
by Ashoka Mukpo on 21 January 2021
Increased political buy-in for law enforcement and interdiction efforts at ports in East Africa have pushed wildlife smuggling westward to Nigeria.
Between 1998 and 2014, the top two countries associated with ivory seizures were Tanzania and Kenya. Since 2014, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo have overtaken them.
Corruption at the ports, the involvement of influential politicians, and rural poverty make Nigeria an attractive waypoint for smugglers.
When Singaporean customs officials opened a shipping container en route to Vietnam from Nigeria on April 3, 2019, they found piles of canvas sacks stuffed full of dusty, dried flakes. Packed along with nearly 180 kilograms (400 pounds) of carved elephant ivory, the flakes turned out to be pangolin scales 12.9 metric tons of them. It was the largest seizure of pangolin scales ever recorded, gat ....

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