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Pangolin is most poached species of 2015 in India [1]

The pangolin is gifted with a unique defence mechanism of rolling into a ball that protects it against predators, but is helpless against better equipped poachers.The toothless mammal, also called

Publication Date: 
03/02/2016
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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India [3], Poaching [4], Mammals [5], Wildlife Act 1972 [6], Tribals [7], Tiger [8], Wildlife [9]
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