Garibaldee@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoNearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdownnews.mongabay.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up143
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minus-squareGaribaldee@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agohttps://apnews.com/article/sea-cucumber-smuggling-789e6d45705a7a4f570e64604f186aff Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers — which are prized in China for food and medicine and as a reputed aphrodisiac.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoRight… But do they go to a wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary… Or what?
minus-squareBob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoTrump is trying to claim that they are property of the US government, so that he can sell them to restaurants in China. Wait, is he really doing that or did I just make that up? Who can even tell anymore.
https://apnews.com/article/sea-cucumber-smuggling-789e6d45705a7a4f570e64604f186aff
Right… But do they go to a wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary… Or what?
Trump is trying to claim that they are property of the US government, so that he can sell them to restaurants in China.
Wait, is he really doing that or did I just make that up? Who can even tell anymore.