National Geographic USA – June 2019

(Nora) #1

Masked to protect
their identities, law
enforcement officers
with Côte d’Ivoire’s
organized crime unit
sit atop nearly 8,000
pounds of pangolin
scales seized in 2017
and 2018 and proba-
bly bound for China or
Vietnam. As the four
Asian pangolin species
have become endan-
gered, traffickers
have turned to the
African species.

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