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Pangolins are hunted for their scales for their questionable use in Chinese medicine. Courtesy Zoological Society of London
Pangolins are hunted for their scales for their questionable use in Chinese medicine. Courtesy Zoological Society of London
West Africa a magnet for illicit animal trade linked to extremist terrorism
Call for co-ordinated probe into poachers lured west by lucrative pangolin scales