Secrets of the Pangolin

The world’s most trafficked mammal isn’t the tiger, or the elephant or the rhino, rather it’s the

pangolin; a small scaled creature that lives throughout Asia and Africa. Its body is covered in

scales to protect it from natural predators, but it is precisely these scales that have caused it to

be hunted to near extinction, now making it a critically endangered species. More than one

million of these gentle creatures have been killed over the last decade.