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7.5 Tons of Elephant Ivory and Pangolin Scales Seized by Vietnam

(The AEGIS Alliance) – HANOI, VIETNAM – 7.5 tons of elephant ivory and pangolin (Ant Eater) scales have been seized  by Vietnamese authorities in one of the country’s largest ever wildlife trafficking investigations.

A total of 3.5 tons of elephant ivory and 4 tons of pangolin scales were discovered in steel barrels this Wednesday when Vietnamese customs officers were inspecting a shipping container that had arrived at the northern Hai Phong port, according to a report by the Vietnam News Agency.

The ivory and scales in the steel barrels were mixed with other barrels that contained tar in an effort to conceal or hide the trafficked animal parts from customs authorities in Vietnam.

The cargo was meant to shipped to a logistic company located in Hai Phong city, but the Vietnamese news website wrote that no one tried to claim ownership of the freight shipment. There were no details available about where it originated from.

Police in Vietnam had started a criminal investigation last Friday.

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Trading and poaching pangolins and ivory tusks carry prison sentences of up to five years in Vietnam.

The Southern Asian country of Vietnam is commonly used as a destination for trafficking wildlife parts and is a transit point for such materials as ivory, along with various other trafficked items to be smuggled into China.

It is known that the pangolin are the most widely trafficked mammals on Earth. Pangolin scales are made out of keratin, which is ground up to be used for traditional medicine practices, especially in China.

A lot may have been seized and taken off the black markets, but there is also the devastating loss of wildlife from the amount that was confiscated.

This is according to a report by APNews.com

Featured Image: Left: Elephant with Big Tusks (Public Domain Image) Right: Pangolin / Ant Eater (CC/Flickr/David Brossard)

Kyle James Lee – The AEGIS Alliance – This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Kyle James Lee
Kyle James Leehttps://theaegisalliance.com
Majority Owner of The AEGIS Alliance. I studied in college for Media Arts, Game Development. Talents include Writer/Article Writer, Graphic Design, Photoshop, Web Design and Development, Video Production, Social Media, and eCommerce.

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