JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities have seized about 3,000 shark fins that were about to be flown to Hong Kong, an official said, a rare success in the battle against the illegal trade.
The fins from the oceanic white-tip shark, a species protected in Indonesia and banned from export, were seized last week at the international airport that serves the capital Jakarta, government official Rusnanto, who goes by one name, said.
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