And, surprise, their "harvesting" is tied back to ....CHINA!
From Red Orbit....
In its biggest seizures of pangolins this year, Malaysia’s Wildlife and National Parks Department confiscated 98 animals from a house in Alor Setar in the northern state of Kedah.
After about three weeks of surveillance and investigations, the department’s Wildlife Crime Unit raided the house early Wednesday morning and found the smuggled pangolins along with 6.5 pounds of pangolin scales..
"We believe the animals were destined to be sold to Asian countries for their meat, as well as their scales to be used as traditional medicine," the department's enforcement chief Saharudin Anan told AFP.
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Poor pangolins.
I haven't (knowingly) bought anything from China for years. First because of their disregard for human rights - and now, more than ever for their total disrespect for nonhumans.
I'm still seething that we recognized them enough to hold the olympics there... China sucks. Rant over.
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