Top pangolin traffickers are apprehended in a sting operation.

A four-year investigation and trial in Nigeria resulted in the conviction of the leaders of a transnational wildlife trafficking organisation.

Last month, they admitted to stealing the scales of critically endangered African pangolins.

Half of the unlawful trade in pangolin scales was carried out by these "top-of-the-pyramid" criminals.

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