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Mr. Tony Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of items from endangered species seized by the Hong Kong authorities in the second half of 1990 and the prosecutions arising from such seizures.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd
[holding answer 1 February 1991]: In the second half of 1990, the Hong Kong authorities seized a wide variety of specimens of endangered species, from which 54 prosecutions arose. Details are as follows:
| Seizure of Endangered Species (1 July 1990 to 31 December 1990) | |
| Species | |
| Mammal | |
| Felidae (wild cats) skin | 349 pc |
| Elephant—Ivory | 94·3 kg |
| Monkey (live) | 6 hd |
| Slow Loris | 9 hd |
| Gibbon | 3 hd |
| Pangolin: live/stuffed/carcass | 3 hd |
| meat/scale | 9·6 kg |
Species
| |
Bird
| |
| Bird of prey/owl—live/dead | 10 hd |
| meat | 0·3 kg |
| Parrot | 54 hd |
Reptile
| |
| Reptiles: skins | 695 pc + |
| 10,000 pairs of watch straps | |
| live/stuffed/carcass | 7 hd |
| Sea turtle: scale | 52 pc |
| live/stuffed/shell | 103 hd |
| Tortoise | 9 hd |
Amphibian
| |
| Giant Salamander: live/carcass | 2 hd |
Fish
| |
| Asiatic Bony Tongue | 45 tails |
| Arapaima fish | 558 tails |
Insect
| |
| Mounted butterfly | 5 pc |
Corale
| 500 kg |
Plant
| |
| Orchid | 2,269 pc |
| Total Number of Seizures: 166 | |