WIRE — While the past few decades have seen major gains in the fight against wildlife trafficking and smuggling worldwide, the illegal and devastating trade remains commonplace in Sub-Saharan Africa. West and Central Africa, in particular, remain the chief source of elephant tusks, rhinoceros horns, and pangolins (whose scales are used widely in Chinese traditional medicine) trafficked
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