Tag: convention-on-biological-diversity

Exacerbated by the commercialisation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the 1950s, the demand for pangolin meat and scales drove the decline of an estimated 94 per cent of pangolins in China between the 1960s and 2000s

It seems inconceivable that in the 21st century, iconic animals such as elephants and rhinos, animals we love so much, may suddenly be facing the same fate as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers – extinction! Time is rapidly running out, especially for rhinos. In 2011, the last Javan rhino in Vietnam was killed by a […]