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Tiger skins wait to be destroyed in a police station in Banda Aceh

Registration of tiger and crocodile skins and other wildlife contraband at a police station in Banda Aceh, Sumatra Indonesia before they are destroyed after several busts of wildlife crime syndicates that had been operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans still coexist under the same canopy. The syndicates have trade routes, spanning the globe and as illegal palm oil expansion moves into the last remaining blocks of forest allowing poachers easy access to some of the last iconic species. Photo: Paul Hilton

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Copyright: Greenpeace Paul Hilton for Earth Tree
Image Size: 5760x3703 / 15.3MB; contraband illegal trade exotic animal tiger tiger skin Leuser Ecosystem leuser ecosystem leuser black market black market Wildlife Crime wildlife crime
Contained in galleries: Contraband, Wildlife Contraband

Registration of tiger and crocodile skins and other wildlife contraband at a police station in Banda Aceh, Sumatra Indonesia before they are destroyed after several busts of wildlife crime syndicates that had been operating in and around the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, rhinos, elephants, and orangutans still coexist under the same canopy. The syndicates have trade routes, spanning the globe and as illegal palm oil expansion moves into the last remaining blocks of forest allowing poachers easy access to some of the last iconic species. Photo: Paul Hilton