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Pangolin trade

A critically endangered pangolin curls up into a ball as the poacher nears the tree. The demand for pangolin meat and scales used in traditional Chinese medicine in China and Vietnam is pushing the pangolin to extinction. Researchers at IUCN say that over a million pangolins were caught in the last decade, which makes them the most illegally-traded mammal in the world. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,

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A critically endangered pangolin curls up into a ball as the poacher nears the tree. The demand for pangolin meat and scales used in traditional Chinese medicine in China and Vietnam is pushing the pangolin to extinction. Researchers at IUCN say that over a million pangolins were caught in the last decade, which makes them the most illegally-traded mammal in the world. Photo: Paul Hilton for WildAid wildlife trade, wildlife markets, wildlife crime, wildlife market, pangpolins,