Wildlife smuggling via social media

Wildlife smugglers who use endangered species as ingredients in so-called "traditional" medicines are turning to social media to peddle their wares

That's according to multiple monitoring groups Reuters spoke with, who say that corner of the Internet is providing traffickers with benefits not available on old black market channels.

Particularly as China, the world's biggest exporter and importer of the remedies, which are also called "folk" medicines, sees its middle class boom.

Doctor Colman Criodan is the World Wildlife Fund's policy director, based in Kenya.

It's port of Mombasa is one of the biggest hubs for the illicit trade.