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Authorities in Vietnam have seized over two tons of pangolin scales and ivory from elephant tusks. State media reports that the poached body parts were shipped from Nigeria hidden inside of wooden boxes.

730 pounds of ivory and 1.7 tons of pangolin scales were listed in the shipping manifest as “high end lumber” and were recovered in northern Hai Phong city, according to Hai Quan Online.

This comes at the end of 2019 after a full year of major blackmarket poaching busts in Vietnam that includes animal parts from tigers, rhinos, elephants and pangolins.

Ivory has been illegal in Vietnam since 1992 but that hasn’t stopped the multi billion dollar blackmarket for these animal parts used in traditional medicine and meat in the case of pangolins.

Three separate species of the pangolin are on the brink of extinction which is sadly no surprise as the pangolin is considered the most trafficked animal on the planet with over a million having been taken from the wild in just the last decade.