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

Mongabay
Jan 21, 2021, 9:06 am111 pts
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 —…

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

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