France sounds alert on primates' skulls trafficking

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 23, 2023 12:01 am

Paris, France: French customs said Thursday that they had seized almost 400 skulls from protected primate species in just seven months, in a sign of a rise in the lucrative trade.

Agents at the Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport had intercepted 392 posted packages between May and December last year, containing primate skulls mostly from Cameroon and destined for collectors in the United States.

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