11 May 2021 Pangolins: World’s most trafficked mammal.

Pangolins: World’s most trafficked mammal.

Context

Wildlife forensics helps cause of pangolins

Issue

1. Pangolins are world’s most trafficked mammal
2. The primary demand for its scales in the making of traditional East Asian medicines has led to an estimated illegal trade worth $2.5 billion every year.
3. between 2000 and 2019, an estimate of about 8,95,000 pangolins was trafficked globally, which mainly involved Asian and African pangolins

Details about Pangolins

1. Indian pangolins are endangered and the Chinese pangolins are critically endangered
2. Pangolin is only scaly mammal on the planet. According to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), it is also the most illegally traded vertebrate within its class (Mammalia).
3. Of the eight species of pangolin worldwide, two are found in India. They are Chinese pangolin, mostly found in northeast India and Indian pangolin.

Protection Status:

• Chinese pangolin has been listed as “critically endangered” by UN affiliated International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.
• Indian pangolin has been listed as “endangered” in IUCN Red List. It is also a Schedule I category protected animal, under the Wildlife Protection Act (1972)

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