and although it is fully protected by law in the colony and island of Hong-Kong, the demand for its carcass makes more extensive protection in South China necessary (Hong Kong Naturalist,July 1937, 79). The animal itself is eaten, but a greater danger arises from the ...
and tend to be eaten secretly, in the private rooms of exclusive restaurants. The problem is that the number of rich people who want to eat them, and can afford to do so, has risen rapidly since China’s economic development really kicked off in ...
They often are referred to as being scaly anteaters, but they are not part of the anteater family, said Jeff Flocken, North American director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. “They have no relatives on the planet.” Why are pangolins prized, and how great is the threat ...
They are highly valued in China and Vietnam, where their meat is eaten as a delicacy and where they are believed to have medicinal properties – including aiding breastfeeding and curing asthma or cancer. There is no scientific evidence to support any of these beliefs. A baby Sunda pangolin...
Often mistaken for reptiles due to their scale-covered bodies, pangolins are in fact mammals. Nocturnal and extremely secretive, they are hard to study and highly threatened. Over 100,000 are trafficked to Asia and China from Africa every year where they are eaten as a delicacy and where, tr...
The pangolin or scaly ant-eater () is the most primitive of Chinese mammals, and although it is fully protected by law in the colony and island of Hong-Kong, the demand for its carcass makes more extensive protection in South China necessary (July 1937, 79). The animal itself is eaten,...