HANOI: A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to 13 years in jail for trafficking nearly 10 tons of rhino horns, pangolin scales, and other banned wildlife items.

Environmentalists hailed Tuesday's verdict as a "rare success" in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade.

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