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First ever pangolin conference concludes all eight species in trouble

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2013-07-24

Demand for scales, meat, and even fetuses of pangolins have pushed all eight species of this unique mammalian order—Pholidota—toward extinction, according to the world's first ever pangolin conference with the International Union for Conservation of Nature - Species Survival Commission (IUCN-SSC) Pangolin Specialist Group.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0723-hance-pangolin-conference.html