Malaysian authorities have burned nearly three tonnes of seized scales of endangered pangolins worth $9m (£7m), reports AFP news agency.
The director-general of the Wildlife and National Parks Department, Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim, told AFP: “Such a huge seizure and torching of it is definitely a blow to smuggling syndicates.”
Abdul Kadir added that 3,000 pangolins would have been killed to obtain the 2.8 tonnes (2,800 kilograms) of scales.
Pangolin is used by some in medicine as they believe it increases blood circulation and lactation.
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