IN THE NEWS – China urged to burn stockpiles of pangolin scales
The following article was published by Oxpeckers. Environmental groups say a symbolic gesture would send a clear signal to the public that use of pangolin scales is no longer permitted. Alexis Kriel reports A call on the Chinese government to burn its stockpile of pangolin…
IN THE NEWS – Africa’s pangolins caught in ‘the perfect storm’
Recent seizures of huge hauls of scales have turned Nigeria into Africa’s key illegal pangolin exporting country. The APWG’s Alexis Kriel investigates what is driving the trade in this article published in Oxpeckers.org (Photo above: Lagos market: The peddlar offered two live pangolins to a…