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In 2019, WWF reported 195,000 pangolins were trafficked for their scales alone. The demand is mostly from China, but also from the United States, where leather is used for boots, bags and belts.
The pangolin trade is the illegal poaching, trafficking, and sale of pangolins, parts of pangolins, or pangolin-derived products on the black market. Pangolins are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal, accounting for as much as 20% of all illegal wildlife trade. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] According to the International Union for Conservation ...
Pangolin parts are also used for medicinal purposes in other Asian countries such as India, Nepal and Pakistan. In some parts of India and Nepal, locals believe that wearing the scales of a pangolin can help prevent pneumonia. [98] Pangolin scales have also been used for medicinal purposes in Malaysia, Indonesia and northern Myanmar.
The pangolin scales, which have an estimated price of around 40,000 baht ($1,129) per kilogram, are suspected to have been brought from Malaysia to Thailand, to be transported to Laos.
Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing of cloth or leather in overlapping rows. [1] Scale armour was worn by warriors of many different cultures as well as their horses. The material used to make the scales varied and included ...
Officials say they seized and destroyed the scales in a stand against illegal wildlife trafficking. Nigeria burns $1.4m-worth of pangolin scales in anti-trafficking stand Skip to main content
The tree pangolin[4] (Phataginus tricuspis) is one of eight extant species of pangolins ("scaly anteaters"), and is native to equatorial Africa. Also known as the white-bellied pangolin or three-cusped pangolin, it is the most common of the African forest pangolins. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pangolins are among the world’s most heavily poached animals. A newly discovered species could help conservationists fight against their extinction, researchers say. Newly discovered pangolin ...