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'Folk' medicine's wildlife traffickers go social

So-called "traditional" medicines represent an outsized proportion of wildlife smuggling, some 42 percent in the European Union alone. And for traffickers, old black market channels are starting to take a back seat to social media. Matthew Larotonda reports.