Help us scale back pangolin trafficking

When a predator approaches, a pangolin rolls up into a ball and relies on its scaly armor for protection. But those scales have proven to be its greatest vulnerability.

Up to 2.7 million pangolins are killed annually because their scales fetch a high value in countries like China where many people mistakenly believe that the scales possess magical healing properties.

Legal trade in pangolins has been banned in China. But the demand persists, in part because China's government hasn't released an official statement educating consumers that pangolin scales possess no magical healing properties in traditional medicine. We must persuade them to renounce these beliefs and do it quickly — or it will be too late.

Tell China's Food & Drug Administration to officially renounce the use of pangolin scales in traditional medicine.