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Author Topic: China’s push to export traditional medicine may doom the magical pangolin  (Read 420 times)

YanTing

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Wasington Post July 21
China’s push to export traditional medicine may doom the magical pangolin   
by Simon Denyer

In  a rescue center, the pangolin slowly wakes and uncurls, sniffing out a  nighttime feast of ants’ eggs, then lapping it up with its implausibly  long tongue. One of 74 pangolins rescued from the back of a truck in  Vietnam in April, its survival has defied the odds.
This  almost mystical creature, looking like a cross between an anteater and  an armadillo but unrelated to either, is the world’s most trafficked  mammal: A million of them are thought to have been poached from the wild  in just a decade.

Already almost wiped out  in China, the pangolin is fast disappearing from the jungles of the  rest of Asia and, increasingly, from Africa to supply China’s booming  market in traditional medicine.

Now, as China  pushes to export traditional medicine around the world under the  umbrella of its Belt and Road investment plan, many wildlife experts  fear that the animal faces extinction — unless something changes very  soon....

The air of mystery attaching to the reclusive pangolin   has  been its downfall, sparking an unjustified belief that its scales have  magical medicinal properties. In hospitals and pharmacies across China  and Vietnam, powder made from pangolin scales is prescribed for an  impossibly wide range of ailments, including rheumatism, wound  infections, skin disorders, coronary heart disease and even cancer.
Mothers  take powdered pangolin scales to help them lactate, while men drink  pangolin blood or consume fetuses in the belief that this will make them  more virile....

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-push-to-export-traditional-medicine-may-doom-the-magical-pangolin/2018/07/20/8d8c52d4-7ef1-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html
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