These helpless creatures are suffering for the sake of fake medicine!
Add your name if you want to help shut down this whole industry!
"China's illegal wildlife trade demands have led to traffickers force-feeding pangolins to increase their weight and price on the black market, a bombshell BBC investigation revealed.
"These small, soft animals have been under threat for decades from poachers, as their scales are used in Chinese traditional medicines, leading to some species in Asia becoming "critically endangered," according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
"Though illegal to poach and trade, pangolin meat is prized as a delicacy in parts of China, which has led to the underground black market force-feeding the animals to increase their weight and price, and, in some cases turning to the African colony to solve the problem," reported The Express.
What could be more outrageous?
Poachers are capturing wild, endangered animals and force-feeding them for people to devour!
"Sophisticated criminal networks smuggle pangolins from the forests of Southeast Asia and across the borders.
"The trade is worth hundreds of millions of pounds," said Sir David Attenborough.
It's like something out of a horror movie...
"Sir David Attenborough – with the help of conservationist Maria Diekmann – exposed the rogue tricks used during his BBC series 'Natural World', when cameras visited a wildlife rescue centre in Vietnam.
"The Sunda spends much of its life in the trees. It's the most widely distributed species in Asia, but, as a result of illegal trade, it's now critically endangered"," reported the same source.
In order to put a stop to this, the Chinese authorities must take this seriously and work hard to shut down the black markets where this is happening.
Think about it.
If customers know where to buy pangolin products, then the police can figure it out too.
That's why we're asking Fu Zhenghua, Chinese Minister of Justice, to do everything in his power to spearhead a campaign to put and end to the illegal trade of pangolins within China once and for all.
Doesn't this cruelty break your heart?
Then add your name to help demand an end to the horrific exploitation of endangered pangolins.
