Authorities seize butchered pangolins
01/07/2012Wildlife authorities seized a huge shipment of meat and scales from up to a hundred slaughtered pangolins, also known as scaly anteaters, officials said yesterday.
Their meat and scales were probably destined for China to be used in culinary delicacies, traditional medicine and handicrafts, the officials said.
No one was arrested in the seizure operations this week at Puerto Princesa airport on the island of Palawan, the only area where they can be found in the Philippines, said local conservation official Alex Marciada..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120107nat6.html
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