28th October 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—Stunning figures in traffickers’ logbooks indicate massive illegal capture and trade in endangered pangolins or scaly anteaters, finds a new TRAFFIC study. A Preliminary Assessment of Pangolin Trade in Sabah (PDF, 500 KB) analyses logbooks seized following a raid by Sabah Wildlife Department in 2009 on a syndicate’s pangolin trafficking [...]
Seized Notebooks Give Unique Insight Into Scale of Illicit Pangolin Trade (Malaysia)
Borderland: China’s Dangerous Appetite for Rare Animals (China)
Sharron Lovell/GlobalPost 26 October 2010, GUANGZHOU, China— The teenaged cook grabs a handful of slim green snakes from their cage outside the kitchen, seizing them by their necks as he wields his cleaver in the other hand. In a matter of minutes, he slits the skin of each snake from neck to tail, the squirming [...]