Customs officers check python skin in a suspected company in Haikou, South China's Hainan province, Jan 30, 2016. A total of 24,697 pieces of smuggled python skin worth of 310 million yuan ($47.8 million) were seized and 16 suspects of smuggling were arrested by the Haikou Customs recently, making the largest smuggling case of python skin seized by customs in China so far. [Photo/VCG]