According to a study and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), pangolin is the most widely trafficked mammal in the world, especially in international trade for the so-called traditional medicine, health supplements as well as medicine for various diseases while in Cambodia the population of pangolin is unknown but through the seizure by authorities, this species is facing extinction.

 

Mr. Olly Griffin, a Technical Advisor at WCS told AKP that Cambodia is home to one of the eight species of pangolins, the Sunda Pangolin (Manis javanica), Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.

 

“The Cambodian population of pangolins is extremely threatened, and continues to decline,” he said. “Under Article 49 of the national Forestry Law, it is illegal to ‘harass, harm, hunt, net, trap, poison, possess, stock, maintain as a zoo or pet, transport, trade, export, or import’ pangolins and violators face one to five years in prison, a fine of up to about $2,390, or both.” Anyway, he underlined, pangolin is still threatened by illegal poachers and consumers and export likely to China and Vietnam for local folk medicines, health tonics, and as a source of protein.

 

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It's time for the Wildlife authorities to collect as many as possible from the wild and keep them in reserve with armed guards and start a breeding programme. AS they become rarer the price will go up. The Chinese ars**oles will never stop buying them for medicine

With every species extinct , the world becomes poorer ...

This NGO doing great work in Vietnam to stop poaching and save the pangolin from extinction.

 

https://www.svw.vn/

Wasn't pangolin and bats supposed to be the original carriers of Covd-19 at the wet market in Wuhan?

4 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Wasn't pangolin and bats supposed to be the original carriers of Covd-19 at the wet market in Wuhan?

There is now a ban on eating them (although I don't suppose that'll stop our Chinese friends who'll eat anything that moves), but their main use is in Chinese medicine. For which they are being hunted to extinction.