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A New York man was sentenced to prison for trafficking exotic African cats -- some of which were the same breed as the ones that escaped from a home in Royal Oak last week, authorities said.
The black-market trade in wildlife has moved online, and the deluge is 'dizzying' Rene Ebersole © Photograph by Felix Wong, South China Morning Post, Getty Images Illegal ivory from elephants, rhinos, and other animals is in demand for the production of carved sculptures, trinkets, and jewelry such as these pieces, destroyed in Hong Kong in May 2014 as a public display of defiance against wildlife trafficking. Scientists studying the online ivory trade have found that sellers often use code words to avoid detection by law enforcement. When a squad of federal and state law en...