Meet the Wildlife Police

The Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport were suspicious. Something just didn’t seem right about the tall stack of polystyrene foam trays, marked “frozen fish,” that had passed through customs in London on their way to a flight bound for Hong Kong.

The agents removed the top tray—and discovered carton after carton filled with 440 pounds of live, baby glass eels. One of the world’s most critically endangered species, the eels—known by the scientific name Anguilla Anguilla—turned out to have been fished out of a river…

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