Its a figure of speech not a factual number, but if you need to know more die before shipping at the exporters then what’s actually shipped out.

This is how its been for all CITES animals for decades, worst is many none CITES suffer the same fate because dealers have to wait for documents before sending the shipments.

I have about 2000 pages of documents on varanids skin trade alone, I know just about everything about it, from the trappers to the moment your watch bracelet arrive at your jewellery, this from every country monitors are exploited, unless you plan to farm them and market there skins? We have no reasons to get into such discussions.

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