Conservation organisations filed a legal petition urging the US secretary of the Interior to formally certify China for illegally trading in critically imperilled pangolins
Authorities in China are still promoting the use of a COVID-19 treatment containing bile extracted from the gall bladders of caged bears
China secured huge international media coverage when its Government-controlled State media reported pangolin scales had been removed as a raw ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) – but in reality they can still be legally traded and used.
In a controversial decision questioned by wildlife scientists around the globe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to formally recognise Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for the first time at the 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva