The billion-euro trade driving Europe's eels to extinction

Traffickers are making big bucks smuggling millions of critically endangered eels across continents, in suitcases on planes or by exploiting legal loopholes to end up on dinnerplates. Where are the smuggling hotspots?

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The billion-euro trade driving Europe's eels to extinction

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