JOHANNESBURG (AFP): South African officials have seized 342 kg of lion bones – prized in Asia for their supposed medicinal values and to make jewellery – at Johannesburg airport and arrested three people, the environment ministry said.
The contents of the crates, destined for Malaysia, were misdeclared, a statement said.
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