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How undercover sting outwitted pangolin traffickers

2023-08-16 07:25
How charity investigators went undercover to outwit a global wildlife trafficking gang.
How undercover sting outwitted pangolin traffickers

The leaders of a global wildlife trafficking gang have been convicted after a four-year investigation and a trial in Nigeria.

They pleaded guilty last month to smuggling the scales of endangered African pangolins.

These "top-of-the-pyramid" traffickers were responsible for half the illegal...