PETALING JAYA: More than 330 tonnes of the world's most trafficked mammal - pangolins - and their parts have been seized in Asia from 2015 to 2021, say the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic.
The Traffic rapid analysis of confiscations in the region, released on Saturday (Feb 19) in conjunction with World Pangolin Day, showed that 91% of the total volume seized in Asia since 2015 was in mainland China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.
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