Wildlife Poaching, Farming & Trafficking

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WildAid: " The government of China announced that it has upgraded #pangolins from Class II to the highest-level Class I protection, affording the three species (Chinese, Sunda and Indian) that occur [or historically occurred] in China the same protection as the Giant Panda, with a penalty of 10 years imprisonment for those caught hunting, killing, smuggling or trading them. Additionally, pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine as reported by China’s Health Times newspaper!

We’ve been working to protect pangolins since 2016 and this news is exciting to say the least.
This #WildAidInTheWild post is a good example of our work in action. Since February, WildAid has bolstered government announcements and communications urging the public to stop consuming wildlife with several media campaigns including a video featuring mega-star Jay Chou warning of the disease risk from consuming pangolins which was viewed over 20 million times on social media within a few days and has since been placed on the start-up menu of Xiaomi TVs, amassing 590 million views in the past two months. WildAid has also placed over 250 billboards urging an end to consumption of pangolins and a call to help protect them in prominent locations such as the subways of Guangzhou and Beijing, Kunming railway station, a shopping mall in Xiamen, and a four-story installation across from the Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou. Recent social media campaigns on pangolins with The People’s Daily and messages from other prominent celebrities such as Angelababy have garnered over 180 million views "

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