The pangolin, now recognised as the world’s most trafficked mammal, is currently undergoing population collapse across South and Southeast Asia, primarily because of the medicinal value attributed to its meat and scales. This paper explores how scarcity and alterity (otherness) drive the perceived value of these creatures for a range of human and more-than-human stakeholders: wildlife traffickers, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners, Asian consumers of their meat and scales, hunters and poachers, pangolin-rearing master-spirits, and conservation organisations.

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RUDRAPUR: Sixteen days after demonetization, as queues outside banks and ATMs continue to get longer, the decline in purchasing power of customers due to currency shortage has hit not just legal bu

Illegal sand mining in the Sutlej River basin in Himachal Pradesh is on the rise.

Dar es Salaam — Security officers at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) have arrested an Indian national for allegedly trying to smuggle 17 lion claws.

AP HC had stayed investigation due to unclear inter-state border
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Illegal mining is reportedly being carried out in full swing at a stone quarry located at the proposed electronic city site at Tuem.

Parliament — Parliament has ordered the cancellation of a series of sand mining and fishing licences issued to companies operating in Lwera on Masaka Road.

The pangolin – the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal – might have a new champion: rats that will be trained to sniff out trafficked pangolin parts in shipments heading from Africa to Asia.

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