Repository Brims With Seized Wildlife Items

By Photographs and Story Brennan Linsley Associated Press - Oct 25, 2015

Commerce City, Colo. — Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelves of a warehouse on a wildlife refuge near Denver. The National Wildlife Property Repository is the only place in the United States that stores such a large collection of seized wildlife items. It provides a macabre look at the cost of the global trafficking of endangered and threatened...