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Singapore busts reveal loss of 38,000 endangered pangolins
11 April 2019
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Singapore has seized nearly 26 tonnes of pangolin scales - the most ever recorded - in two separate operations over the past week, increasing calls for improved protection for the endangered species.
The scales, linked to four types of pangolin in Africa, would have together come from 38,000 pangolins.
The latest shipment was found on April 8 in a shipping container on its way from Nigeria to Vietnam which was labelled as "cassia seeds", a statement from the National Parks Board, Singapore Customs and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said on Wednesday.
The scales were packed into 474 bags.
On April 3, Singapore authorities discovered 12.9 tonnes of scales, shipped as "frozen beef", hidden in another container on its way from Nigeria to Vietnam.
That shipment also included 177kg of cut up and carved elephant ivory, said the authorities.
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