Mumbai, March 16 -- A staggering 16,000 kilograms of shark fins were seized from different parts of the country between January 2010 to December 2022 and most of the confiscated Shark-derived products were destined for Singapore, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Sri Lanka, and mainland China.
According to a report by World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) and TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, the confiscated shark fins constituted more than 80 per cent of the seizures. Significant volumes of shark cartilage and teeth were also seized.
A new factsheet "Netted in illegal wildlife trade: Sharks of India"-released by the WWF-India and TRAFFIC, a global non-governmental organization monitoring the trade in wild plan...