Customs officials seize 455 pangolins hidden in crates of fish in Indonesia

Mongabay
By Philip JacobsonJul 9, 2015, 5:05 am425 pts
Indonesian customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 455 dead pangolins to Singapore from an airport in the country's second city of Surabaya, a hotbed of wildlife trafficking. Suspicious of a man with 43 cartons he claimed were full of fish, officers checked the boxes and the scaly mammals instead. By the…

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