Hidden in the shadows, there is an underground economy that smuggles pangolins across many lands to China, where this shy anteater is used in traditional medicine and served as a status-symbol delicacy.



R.AGE journalists spent months speaking to the people of this illicit trade, ranging from hunters to smugglers to corrupt policemen. Their stories paint a picture of a trade so rampant it threatens the pangolin’s very existence.

Hidden in the shadows, there is an underground economy that smuggles pangolins to faraway lands, where this shy anteater is used in traditional medicine and served as a status-symbol delicacy.

R.AGE journalists spent months speaking to the people of this illicit trade, ranging from hunters to smugglers to corrupt policemen. Their stories paint a picture of a trade so rampant it threatens the pangolin’s very existence.

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