CEOAFRICA.com gathered that Hong Kong customs authorities has impounded a container  which has more than 1,100 ivory tusks, 13 rhino horns and five leopards pelts. The container is shipped from Nigeria with the value of its contents estimated at $5.3 million.

This is one of the biggest burst of its kind in Hong Kong.

Sources disclosed that Hong Kong custom officials detained two suspicious containers following a tip off by their Chinese counterparts. The animal products were found inside 21 sealed wooden crates at the rear of one of the containers.

No arrest has been made regarding this case so far, although it is not the first time this kind of situation is arising.

Cases of impounded containers with animal products coming from Togo, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya has been recorded recently.

It was gathered that Asia is becoming the emerging market for animal products as items like ivories, tusks, and rhino horns are in high demand because of religious and cultural purposes.

This high demand of Animal products has fuelled poaching of elephants, rhinos etc across the continent of Africa.