Wildlife smuggling hubs in Asia
Wildlife smuggling hubs in Asia include:[1]
Myanmar
- Mong La
- Tachileik
- Kyaiktyio
- Three Pagodas Pass
- Muse
Laos
- Vientiane
- Linxia, China
Cambodia
- Preah Monivong (Bokor) National Park
- Phnom Penh
Vietnam
- Pù Mát National Park and Tam Đảo National Park
- Hanoi
- Haiphong
- Vĩnh Yên
Thailand
- Bangkok’s Chatuchak wildlife market
- Mae Sai
Malaysia
Penang Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
- Singapore
Indonesia
- Whole of Sumatra, especially Kota Lubuk Liggau
- Borneo (Aceh)
India
National parks (NP) throughout the country, from Kaziranga in the Northeast to Panna in Madhya Pradesh, having been extirpated in Sariska and Panna NPs as a result of hunting.
China
- Dalou
- Jiegao
- Ruili
- Xishuangbanna
- Kunming
- Nanning
- Pingxiang
- Dongxing
- Haikou
- Guangzhou (especially Chatou Wild Animal market, Qing ping Market, Panjiayuan Market)
- Guangdong
- Xining
- Germu
- Linxia (especially Bei Da Jie market)
- Beijing
- Shanghai,
- Hong Kong
- Lhasa
References and notes
- ^ Felbab-Brown, Vanda (June 2011). "The Disappearing Act: The Illicit Trade in Wildlife in Asia" (PDF). Foreign Policy (6). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
