Pangolin The Most Trafficked Animal On Earth, is a photograph by Miroslava Jurcik which was uploaded on November 19th, 2016.
Pangolin The Most Trafficked Animal On Earth,
Pangolins are declining throughout their range due to increasing demand for their meat, which is seen as a delicacy, and scales and other body parts,... more
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Pangolin The Most Trafficked Animal On Earth,
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph
Description
Pangolins are declining throughout their range due to increasing demand for their meat, which is seen as a delicacy, and scales and other body parts, which are used in some traditional medicines.
This is driving unsustainable levels of poaching and illegal trade. As a result, pangolins are now thought to be the world’s most illegally trafficked wild mammal with more than one million estimated to have been traded in the past decade. This is despite a commercial trade ban for wild-caught pangolins in Asia.
As the populations of the four Asian pangolin species plummet, traders are now looking to Africa to meet demand.
This was Taronga Zoo 100th birthday parade in Sydney.
Taronga is commited to help to safe them, but it will take all of us !!
Wildlife witness free application we all should have: http://www.wildlifewitness.net/
Taronga rasing 1 million for the wild : https://www.thankq.net.au/donate/V273/Donate1.aspx?ref=5609285648&pid=135
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November 19th, 2016
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Comments (20)
Darin Williams
Cool capture! I had to look this animal up, had never heard of it. Reminds me of the armadillo of the American Southwest but they don't seem to be related. l/f
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
Fantastic capture of the pangolin!! so nicely framed!! their trading story make me sad and i hope i live long enough to see a better change for the pangolin!! L/F
Stephanie Moore
So vibrant! I never knew that the were the most trafficked - I thought it would be the elephant or rhinoceros
HH Photography of Florida
What a beautiful light sculpture. I hope that through the efforts of places like Taronga Zoo, this animal can be saved from extinction. l/fv