The Guardian has reported:
Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of
ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine in a move
lauded by animal protection groups as a key step in stamping out trade
in the scaly anteater, the world’s most trafficked mammal....
The news of the delisting from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacopoeia, reported by China’s Health Times
newspaper, comes after the country’s State Forestry and Grassland
Administration (SFGA) raised the protected status of pangolins to the
highest level last week, with immediate effect.
“I am very encouraged,” said Zhou Jinfeng, secretary general of the China
Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF),
who has long pushed for better protection of pangolins and for stopping
the use of their scales. “Our continuous efforts for several years have
not been in vain.”
In February, China’s National People’s Congress pushed forward a ban on the consumption of meat
from wild animals, though there has been uncertainty as to what
wildlife will still be allowed for use in TCM and the fur and leather
industries.
Nice photo the article ran, too:
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