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| | | | | Gibbon smuggling
A vast amount of money is made from the illegal wildlife trade every year. As well as the market for animal derived alternative medicines, some creatures are traded for private collections and as pets.
At Kadoorie wildlife centre, staff care for a baby gibbon that had recently been discovered in the hand luggage of a woman arriving in Hong Kong.
"She actually had it inside her handbag," Idy Wong an employee of Kadoorie Farm explains.
"It was probably smuggled for the pet trade or its fur. When we found it, it was so small and it needed a lot of parental care."
"Very likely the hunter shot and killed its mother and then grabbed the baby for the trade." | | 
Conservationists care for mistreated animals | |
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