coronavirus, le pangolin will he be saved thanks to this monumental “bad buzz” ? Adorned at the turn of the 2010s with the title of “most trafficked mammal in the world” in an almost planetary indifference, the pangolin – its now famous keratin scales, its long sticky tongue and its habit of curling up when it feels threatened – will it finally reach the level of recognition of rhinoceros, tigers and pandas, in the pantheon of species to protect? If several studies doubt today that the presence of pangolins on a market in Wuhan (China) is the source of the health crisis, this unexpected spotlight has made it possible to reveal to the world the extent of the threat hanging over this funny beast. “data-reactid =” 19 “> Accused – possibly wrongly – of being at the origin of the transmission to humans of the coronavirus, the pangolin will he be saved thanks to this monumental “bad buzz” ? Adorned at the turn of the 2010s with the title of “most trafficked mammal in the world” in an almost planetary indifference, the pangolin – its now famous keratin scales, its long sticky tongue and its habit of curling up when it feels threatened – will it finally reach the level of recognition of rhinoceros, tigers and pandas, in the pantheon of species to protect? If several studies doubt today that the presence of pangolins on a market in Wuhan (China) is the source of the health crisis, this unexpected spotlight has made it possible to reveal to the world the extent of the threat hanging over this funny beast.
markets at the start of the epidemic (…)” data-reactid=”20″>In China, where traditional medicine lends innumerable (and largely illusory) therapeutic virtues to the scales of the pangolin, the government recently announced new measures aiming to put an end to the overexploitation of the small mammal: forced to decide urgently banning wild animal markets at the start of the epidemic (…)
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