Africa's pangolin crisis: The delicacy that's driving a species to the brink

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Jun 14, 2025, 3:42 am127 ptsTrending
Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is driving West Africa's illegal hunting of one of the world's most threatened mammals. Interviews with hundreds of hunters show pangolins overwhelmingly caught for food, with majority of…

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