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Authorities at Changi Airport in Singapore seized a record 35.7 kg of smuggled white rhino horns hidden in furniture fittings, highlighting ongoing efforts to combat illegal wildlife trade and protect endangered species like rhinos.
Genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, has been found linking the coronavirus with raccoon dogs for sale there, adding evidence to the case that the pandemic could have been ignited by an infected animal that was being dealt through the illegal wildlife trade. The jumbling together of genetic material from the virus and the animal does not prove that a raccoon dog itself was infected, but the analysis did establish that raccoon dogs deposited genetic signatures in the same place where genetic material from the virus was left, consistent with a scenario in which the virus had spilled into humans from a wild animal.