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Myanmar’s Illegal Wildlife Supermarket

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Jul 07, 2016
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Mong La, a boomtown on the border between Myanmar and China, is notorious for a number of reasons from rampant prostitution to a booming gambling industry. But the town's best-known trade is in illegally purchased wildlife, a business that has turned the former village into an international market for endangered animals.

Among the latter are species such…

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