pangolin poaching

Pangolins are trafficked both for their scales and meat, considered by some to be a delicacy.
The pangolin trade is the illegal poaching, trafficking, and sale of pangolins, parts of pangolins, or pangolin-derived products on the black market.
Pangolins are believed to be the world’s most trafficked mammal, accounting for as much as 20% of all illegal wildlife trade
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than a million pangolins were poached in the decade prior to 2014
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which regulates the international wildlife trade, has placed restrictions on the pangolin market since 1975, and in 2016, it added all eight pangolin species to its Appendix I, reserved for the strictest prohibitions on animals threatened with extinction.
They are also listed on the IUCN Red List, all with decreasing populations and designations ranging from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered

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