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Chinese-run criminal syndicates that smuggle tiger parts and pangolins recently diversified into helmeted hornbill casques. Photograph by RIFKY, RANGKONG INDONESIA-WITH PERMISSION OF INDONESIAN ...
the helmeted hornbill plays a major role in local belief systems. The Punan Bah cultures in Malaysia and Indonesia consider the helmeted hornbill to be ferrymen between one life and the next.