The global trade fuelling one of the world’s biggest wildlife crimes

This week, the Eye team reveals how soaring global demand for eel has fuelled a vast illegal trade worth billions, exposing criminal networks, trafficking routes and controversial deals. Plus Rebecca Henschke reports from Indonesia on how the archipelago’s extraordinary natural wealth is under renewed threat.

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