Can Nigeria help save pangolins in a global wildlife crime crisis?

The demand for Pangolins in Asia, which prevented the population of this scaly, found the only other continent in Africa and increasingly endangered animals.

Nigeria was A hub for pangolin trade and other illegal wild trade. But the authorities recently cracked A Chinese national arrest He suspected of being a high-level Pangolin merchant and Target the supply network This month is in a market in Lagos. The last investigation was five more arrests and 8,300 pounds of Pengolin scales caused 8,300 kilos of pangolin education.

Regional Customs Chief Michael Awe will not contribute to the “Nigerian Customs Service”, which sent a “strong signal” sent by the investigation “a strong signal”. “

Arrests are part of an application point that Nigeria is an increase in the fight against animal trafficking, and experts say.

Nigeria’s customs service, Criminal Tilli Tilli promotion made arrests with the exploration of the Dutch Basic Natural Justice Commission, which provides global law enforcement agencies with evidence of swimming rings. Chinese national Arrested in Lagos in February After the six-month study, 16,000 pounds were associated with the scales of 16,000 pounds seized in August.

“The operation shows long-term intelligence and the value of international cooperation, which reflects the efforts calculated to go beyond low-level busts,” Dr. said Meganne Natali, a lawyer and legal advisor specializing in a wildlife crime.

In order to break the global Pangolin trade, investigators should pay attention to the seizures of the best operators and are not only a wheel poverty and low wheel poverty in the totic pole.

Wild Nature Trade A $ 20 billion in international industryaccording to interpol. Trading in protected pangolins is widely managed with expanding scales request Herbal medicine in China. However, this is a small part of only one demand for exotic animals, vibrant and dead in the world.

Nigerian officers recently rescued 12 live African gray parrotIn April, the two suspects are protected and highly wanted by watching two suspects on a bus trip overnight.

A traveler from the camerist in Nigeria 213 Parrots, 29 packs of parrots, 128 African horns heads, five eagles and one pack of eagles and two chimpanzees heads and eight muscles Customs Customs ChiefGod is to do.

“This illegal nature trade is not only violated our biodiversity, but also threatens economic stability and public safety,” he said, “he said a comment.

In 1974, Nigeria signed an international trade convention in the endangered species, and in the application of the country’s customs authority. However, the efforts of the authority have long seen as “toothless” and “not developed or properly equipped” My brother isafiadeOlder for an old long time there, wrote World Customs Organization Magazine last year.

In 2021, he changed in the customs service with the establishment of a special Wildlife Office, which was “New Sharif in the city”, pointed out the illegal trafficking.

Nigerian officials have been 55,000 pounds and 2,200 pounds of 55,000 pounds of 55,000 pounds and 18,000 pounds and 18,000 pounds to seize more than 2,200 pounds. Jobs, according to WJC, a Vietnamese trade resulted in 12 convictions including Kingpin

The Nigeria gave his efforts to shake his influence as a wildlife trade center Crawford AllanA wild criminal and policy specialist in the wild wildlife in the world.

According to him, other countries are still similar. For a long time, for a long time, for a long time, criticism has been able to carry out illegal trade in endangered animals and products, Mr Allan, who engaged in the training efforts of the authorities and the authorities, who engaged in training efforts.

This week, Authorities in Hong Kong The smuggling of sensitive and endangered species such as pangolins and rhinoserosis, the smuggling of endangered species, and in 2021 in 2021 the penalties for wildlife.

Most of the global discussion of wildlife trafficking centers related to Asia and Africa. However, criminal rings supply consumers who want endangered and protected animals and products around the world and have transit nodes everywhere.

Europe is important to “transit and origin for many” Protected speciesAccording to the European Commission.

Dr. Natali, sometimes the required requirement with drug trafficking, sometimes it became a profitable business for wild rings because of drug trafficking. He noted that a weight loss rhinokeros horn or 2.2 kilograms can be sold for $ 75,000, which now exceeds the cocaine value. “

Although there are a number of evidence for the decline in the purchase of some wildlife products, experts say that such efforts cannot be made in a vacuum.

The United Nations are involved in the most fragile and various ecosystems in the most fragile and various ecosystems from Amazon to the gold triangle from Amazon.