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Posted Fri Mar 14 2014: from
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'Shocking' scale of pangolin smuggling revealed http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1394759699
The globally threatened animals are sought for their scales which are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Annual seizures have been estimated at roughly 10,000 animals but experts warn the illegal trade is far greater....
"The numbers of pangolins traded are shocking, and all the more so considering the pharmaceutical pointlessness of the trade. This trade is intolerably wasteful," said Prof Macdonald, director of the University of Oxford's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), and a co-author of the paper....
Prolific smugglers have received prison sentences from 11 years to life but with demand out-stripping supply, the trade is only becoming more lucrative.
According to the report, pangolin scales are currently worth $600 per kilo, twice the amount they traded for in 2008.
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