The Chinese government has removed pangolin scales from its 2020 list of approved ingredients used in traditional Chinese medicine. It's a move campaigners have described as a 'critical step' towards saving the world's most trafficked mammal.
The Chinese government has removed pangolin scales from its 2020 list of approved ingredients used in traditional Chinese medicine, a move campaigners describe as a"critical step" towards saving the world's most trafficked mammal.
Pangolins are scale-covered insectivores, about the size of a house cat, that are highly valued in Asia for their meat and scales. Last year alone, authorities seized more than 130 tons of pangolin related products, a figure estimated to represent up to 400,000 animals, according to conservation group WildAid.There are eight species of pangolin found in Asia and Africa.
What is being done to save the pangolin? 02:39'Don't wait'The latest move to protect pangolins comes in the wake of new research that suggests pangolins kept in wildlife markets across China may have helped incubate the novel coronavirus before it spread to humans.The virus has now infected more than 7 million people across the world since it was detected last December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, including at least 84,000 cases in mainland China.
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