Soon, A Total Ban On Pangolin Trade

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    • Publish Date: Sep 25 2016 12:38PM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 25 2016 12:38PM
Soon, A Total Ban On Pangolin Trade

World Body Proposes For Stopping Illegal Trade Of Pangolin - The Most Trafficked Animal In The World....

They are reclusive, gentle and quick to roll up into a ball. They - pangolins - keep a low profile. But they are also the world's most heavily trafficked mammal, and experts at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference this week are ringing alarm bells over their survival. India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Nigeria, Senegal and the United States are co-sponsoring the proposal to impose a total ban on pangolin trade.

Why Are They Trafficked
  • It is the meat and body part of a pangolin that has driven the scale-covered, ant-eating mammal towards extinction. More than a million pangolins are believed to have been poached from the wild in the past decade. 
  • In Chinese traditional medicine, pangolin scales are ground into a powder believed to cure conditions from headaches and menstrual cramps to nose bleeding and lack of virility. The scales are sometimes even used as guitar plectrums.
  • In traditional African culture, some people believe in keeping a scale in their pockets to ward off evil. Zimbabweans used to present the mammals to President Robert Mugabe during his early years in office, but the practice has been discontinued.
  • Pangolin fat, blood and bones are also highly valued in African traditional medicine.
  • In South Africa, a pangolin can sell for anything between 10,000 rand ($730) to 80,000 rand ($5,800) depending on the client.

Where Is The Supply

Most are used to supply demand in China and Vietnam, where they are highly regarded as a delicacy and an ingredient in traditional medicine. 

What's Being Done To Address The Situation

At the CITES meeting in Johannesburg, conservationists will discuss moving pangolins into the highest protection category, which bans all international trade. There are four species of pangolin in Africa and four in Asia. Watchdogs say those in Asia are being eaten to extinction, while populations in Africa are declining fast. Research published in the early 2000s estimated populations in China to have declined by up to 94 percent, said Dan Challender, pangolin expert at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

About Pangolins
 
Pangolins are covered in overlapping scales, and have pink, sticky tongues almost as long as their bodies. When physically threatened, they curl into ball, making it easy for them to be picked up by hunters and put into a sack. About the size of a small dog, they are solitary, mostly nocturnal and cannot be farmed.
 

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Rajathariga S P AECS MAGNOLIA MARUTHI PUB SCH

Humans are already responsible for the extinction of many species. It is now time to save what we can still save!

Harini MS NAGARJUNA VIDYANIKETAN

It''s very nice to see that so many steps are being taken to stop animal extinction.

Vandana Subash City International School Wanowrie

This is a good move considering that Pangolins are the most poached animals.Such an initiative should be taken to save other poached animals as well like elephants..

Dhruv Badaya Delhi Public School Jaipur

This is because of humans that pagolin are becoming endangered. They have made themselves secure, but what about animals. They have been using animals for thousands of years for their own benefit. Pagolin will be traded till extinction if no strong law is made.

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