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Our World: The Chimp Smugglers

The Chimp Smugglers

03/02/2017

BBC News Channel - Our World, The Chimp Smugglers

Investigation into how criminals are flouting the law to trade in this endangered species.

BBC journalists, posing as prospective buyers, infiltrate a global baby chimpanzee trafficking ring to discover how criminals are flouting international law.

Entire families of adult chimpanzees are being slaughtered by poachers in Africa in order to capture newborn chimps to sell as pets in the Middle East and Asia. During a year-long undercover investigation, BBC journalists posing as prospective buyers infiltrate a global baby chimpanzee trafficking ring and discover how criminals are flouting international law to trade in this endangered species.

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