P eople have smuggled hundreds of bear body parts, including polar bear parts, into Australia and New Zealand. Enforcement agencies seized bear teeth, rugs, bile and embryos suspended in honey from passengers arriving in Australia and New Zealand from 2007 to 2018.Most of the bear parts and derivatives, such as gallbladder bile, were ingredients in traditional medicines. The goods were most often seized from people travelling into Australia and New Zealand from China, but they also came from other countries such as the US and Canada. “We knew we would find some records, but we never expected them to be in the hundreds or the diversity of products and number of countries from which they were being sourced and transported,” said Phill Cassey, head of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Adelaide in Australia.