Something is Fishy in Botswana

Botswana has no coastline, but is exporting shark fins worth P17 million (R24 million) to neighboring countries, including South Africa, according to the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the UN’s Comtrade database. The Botswana government is unable to explain the figures, which reflect shark fin exports in 2018 and some years prior to that. It is suspected that powerful syndicates are using the country as a conduit to smuggle products of shark species listed as endangered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), of which Botswana is a signatory