Vietnam's pangolin defender wins top environmental prize

A Vietnamese conservationist working to save pangolins from the devastating multi-billion-dollar wildlife trade won a prestigious award for his role in rescuing over a thousand of one of the world's most endangered creatures.

"Helping people to understand these problems will be an opportunity to attract young people and the Vietnamese community to join the work in protecting the forest, wildlife and the environment," Mr Thai, 39, told AFP in an interview ahead of the announcement of the six winners of the prize.Pangolins - often described as"scaly anteaters" - are defenceless in the wild, curling up into a ball when they are frightened, allowing poachers to easily gather them up.

Of the two types - Sunda and Chinese - the latter is faring worse, and faces a"high risk of extinction" in Vietnam, according to Thai. "There are not many Vietnamese role models that we can follow," he explained." an individual or an organization can not do it alone - we need to work together."

SBS Hope it gets him help in his quest to save more pangolins from this dreadful trade.

Breeding is one defense. How about educating ppl about the nonsense in regards to magical powers too.

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