Phoeurk Sar, a 50-year-old Cambodian woman, used a bus ride to the Vietnamese border to ferry her contraband cargo. Her luggage bulged with four endangered Sunda pangolins, curled up big and round as bowling balls, along with 11 Asian soft-shelled turtles, a king cobra, and a rat snake. The acting mayor of Nonthaburi, Thailand, found a different way to transport his illegal catch. He and seven other people were arrested with 410 pangolins hidden in a shipment of coconuts. Then there was the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier whose checked luggage at the Phnom Penh International Airport included a cardboard box with a baby Malaysian sun bear.



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