Hong Kong customs has made the year’s biggest seizure so far of endangered pangolins’ scales, finding a tonne of the contraband along with 13kg of dried snake gall bladders in a shipping ...

A record eight tonnes of pangolin scales and more than 1,000 elephant tusks have been seized from a shipping container in Hong Kong, officials say. The container, from Nigeria and said to be ...

As one of the world’s largest consumers of pangolin products, primarily in traditional medicine, China’s domestic market ...

The pangolin or scaly ant-eater (Manis penta-dactyla dalmanni) is the most primitive of Chinese mammals, and although it is fully protected by law in the colony and island of Hong-Kong ...

Two mainland Chinese men were sentenced to jail for 21 and 27 months for trafficking 100kg of pangolin scales, Hong Kong’s harshest punishment yet for the activity, The outer layer of the ...

of scales from endangered pangolins into Hong Kong, the biggest bust for which a conviction has been secured. Hong Endian was warned by a District Court judge on Thursday that he faced a long ...

from as many as 30,000 pangolins—one of the biggest seizures on record. Last year Hong Kong authorities seized 7.8 tons of scales in a single shipment on its way to China. In all, China ...

Despite this, in 2017 there were numerous major shipments of African pangolin scales seized in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia, involving an estimated 100,000 African pangolins. The largest of these ...

The pangolin is said to be the most widely trafficked ... days after 10 tonnes of scales were intercepted in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Uganda. Scientists say the plight of the animals looks bleak ...

Customs officers at Hong Kong International Airport arrested two travellers and seized HK$700,000 worth of protected items such as tiger teeth, pangolin meat and live turtles in two separate cases ...