Jon Boud's All The Rage Replay On www.traxfm.org - Rob Harland Interview - 9th December 2020

**Jon Boud's All The Rage Show Replay On https://buff.ly/2xzGt3B. This Week Jon Talks To Conservationist Rob Harland. Rob Links Animal & Human Interaction & COVID19. For Example - The Pangolin (New Species Of Ant Eater In Vietnam & Africa) - Are Being Illegally Poached For Their Meat. Pangolins are in high demand for Chinese traditional medicine in southern China and Vietnam because their scales are believed to have medicinal properties. Their meat is also considered a delicacy.100,000 are estimated to be trafficked a year to China and Vietnam, amounting to over one million over the past decade. The nucleic acid sequence of a specific receptor-binding domain of the spike protein belonging to coronaviruses taken from pangolins was found to be a 99% match with SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus which causes COVID-19 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2010, pangolins were added to the Zoological Society of London's list of evolutionarily distinct and endangered mammals.
The overexploitation comes from hunting pangolins for game meat and the reduction of their forest habitats due to deforestation caused by timber harvesting. The pangolin are hunted as game meat for both medicinal purposes and food consumption.
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