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Taiwan, aka. “Pangolin Island”

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Jul 20, 2018
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In an unlikely story of chance, hard work, shifting local taste and relative international ignorance, Taiwan, just 180 km away from two of the world’s biggest consumers of pangolin scales and meat—has what might be the planet’s highest concentration of the world’s most-trafficked mammal.

Once called a “cuddly cross between an anteater and an artichoke,” …

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