Our colleagues Karen Zhang and Xu Jiaming published their investigation into a Chinese wildlife smuggling syndicate. According to court documents in mainland China, the group smuggled at least three shipments of more than four tonnes of pangolin scales worth 3.8 million yuan (US$547,500) from Nigeria to China, with the cargo going through South Korea and…
劳力行中醫師多年來在香港、中國大陸和歐美的大小會議上，一再倡議停止穿山甲鱗片入藥。
Fears have been raised that tonnes of illegally hoarded pangolin scales in Hong Kong have been smuggled to mainland China after it was revealed the city has issued just one licence for possession. Government records reveal a solitary permit has been handed out for 350kg of the endangered mammal’s scales since a global ban on…
What is Hong Kong’s role in the illicit trade? Hong Kong is a major transit hub for smuggled pangolins, serving as a gateway from African countries like Nigeria and Cameroon into mainland China. The number of seizures has greatly increased in the past six years. Hong Kong Customs has seized more than 26 tonnes of…