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Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown (news.mongabay.com)

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What happens to the metric ton of sea cucumber?

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://apnews.com/article/sea-cucumber-smuggling-789e6d45705a7a4f570e64604f186aff

Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers — which are prized in China for food and medicine and as a reputed aphrodisiac.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right... But do they go to a wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary... Or what?

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Trump is trying to claim that they are property of the US government, so that he can sell them to restaurants in China.

Wait, is he really doing that or did I just make that up? Who can even tell anymore.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

"Sir, these lions are counterfeit."