On 2 December 2020, Hong Kong Customs Officers made their biggest seizure of endangered seahorses in two years finding 75kg of the product valued at HK$1 million. A 63 year old man has since been arrested but released on bail.

This year alone, Customs Officers have confiscated HK$149 million worth of endangered species, 12 per cent more than the value seized in 2019. But the total number of cases has dropped from 659 in 2019 to only 250 in 2020. This indicates that although the frequency of trafficking in endangered species has reduced, the quantity per shipment has severely increased - likely to be a result of traffickers needing to move their products creatively and in bulk due to travel restrictions.

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