Operation Thunderstorm seizes tons of live animals

8 tons of pangolin scales, 43 tons of meat, 27,000 reptiles... Here are the results of Operation Thunderstorm.

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00:00The results are spectacular.

00:21We in the world together, we seized over a ton of elephant ivory, over eight tons of

00:28pangolin scales, 27,000 reptiles, tons of wood, 43 tons of wild meat including zebra, eel,

00:39elephant, bear. We had over 4,000 birds that were seized including migratory bird nests.

00:46What is important is that wildlife crime is actually the fourth largest crime by value in

01:04the world. It's worth some 150 billion dollars US each year. It really hurts not only economies

01:10but it particularly hurts indigenous, rural and isolated communities that depend on natural

01:14resources.