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A trip to the National Wildlife Products Repository in Denver, Colorado could be a fashionista’s fantasy. The storehouse is packed with lynx fur coats, crocodile handbags and turtleskin shoes — booty that would be worth millions if they made it to their
Reporter Eric Whitney takes us to The National Wildlife Products Repository outside Denver, Colorado. Here, more than a million illegal wildlife items ?including stuffed tigers, snake boots, and dried seahorses ?are catalogued, stored, and donated to schools, museums, zoos, and research facilities.