Neighboring Cameroon has also organized workshops for customs officials at air and sea ports to identify and
seize pangolin shipments.
Not exact matches
But so far this year, more than 6 tonnes of African
pangolin scales have been
seized before export to Asia - more than the combined total of all previous seizures.
By contrast, local police
seized only 654 illegally shipped
pangolins between 2001 and 2008.
Yet Traffic reports that Chinese demand has made
pangolins among the most common illegally traded wildlife in Asia, while shipments of African
pangolins, until now spared this pressure, have recently been
seized in China.