Hong Kong authorities must do more to stamp out the illegal trade in endangered species by more heavily scrutinising documentation for imports, a study by the University of Hong Kong found.
Researchers said they believed the discrepancy between the documented and actual amount of hippopotamus teeth – often sold as an alternative to ivory – imported from just two countries alone since the 1980s was as much as 17 tonnes, equivalent to the teeth of nearly 3,300 hippos.
The mismatch in...
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