Wildlife activists welcome China's new pangolin protection

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BEIJING: Wildlife activists on Wednesday welcomed China’s decision to remove pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, as Beijing steps up protection of the heavily-trafficked endangered mammal.

The move “may not stop the black market, but it gives a legal foundation that should slow trade and discourage legal consumers,” Maria Diekmann, founder of the Namibia-based Rare and Endangered Species Trust, told AFP. “Depleted wild resources” are being withdrawn from the Pharmacopoeia, the state-owned Health Times reported Tuesday, although the exact reason for the removal of pangolins was not given.

 

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