A open letter in response to the total ban on global “wet markets”
Dear Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu (Director General of the World Health Organisation) and Ms Inger Andersen (Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program), STATEMENT ON NOVEL CORONOVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC AND A RESPONSE TO THE CALL ON THE TOTAL BAN ON GLOBAL “WET MARKETS” Preamble…
IN THE NEWS – Curbing consumption of pangolins
Use of pangolins for bushmeat and African traditional medicine, particularly in poor communities, is complicated by the growing, unsustainable demand for scales from Asia. Alexis Kriel investigated for Oxpeckers.org (Pictured above: A full pangolin skin with all the scales intact, for sale in an African…
IN THE NEWS – South African activists try to protect endangered pangolins
The following article was published by ABC news from the Associated Press. JOHANNESBURG — As World Pangolin Day is marked around the globe, Saturday, some conservationists in South Africa are working to protect the endangered animals, including caring for a few that have been rescued…