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Hong Kong is second largest market in the world for smuggled endangered black spotted turtles, report finds

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Hong Kong has become the second largest market for smuggled endangered black spotted turtles, an international report published on Monday found. Customs and police officers in Hong Kong seized 1,775 black spotted turtles – 17 per cent of the overall number seized globally – during the two-year period between April 2014 and March 2016, according to the report released by wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC. The highest number of confiscations occurred in India, accounting for a...

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