China Jails 17 People For Smuggling Pangolin Scales Worth $28m From Nigeria
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern city of Wenzhou on Tuesday jailed 17 people for smuggling pangolin scales into China. The members of the gang were convicted of importing 23 tonnes of scales from pangolins — the world’s most trafficked mammal — worth 180 million yuan ($28 million) from Nigeria between…