Where Did the 1650 Kg African Pangolin Scales Come From? CBCGDF Pangolin Working Group Applied for Information Disclosure to Hebei Forestry Department
2019/11/26 13:58:00 本站

Recently, the pangolin working group of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) officially applied for information disclosure to the forestry department of Hebei Province, requesting the other party to disclose information about the source of the 1650 kg African pangolin scales by its government departments this year.

 

According to public statistics, the forestry department of Hebei Province has administratively approved three batches of African pangolin scales from February 2019 to now, with a total amount of 1,650 kilograms.

 

The information is as follows:

 

On February 8, 2019, the Forestry Department of Hebei Province agreed that a Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. used 750 kilograms of three-cusped pangolin (Manis tricuspis) scales to produce 130,000 bags of parched pangolin scales.

 

On August 28, 2019, the Forestry Department of Hebei Province agreed that a Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. sold 100 kilograms of giant ground pangolins scales to a pharmaceutical company in Jilin Province for the production of tablets.

 

On August 29, 2019, the Forestry Department of Hebei Province agreed that a Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. sold 800 kilograms of giant ground pangolin scales to a pharmaceutical company in Sichuan Province for processing Chinese herbal medicines.

 

Three-cusped pangolin and giant ground pangolin are pangolins mainly distributed in Africa. In 2016, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) listed all eight pangolins in the world in Appendix I, on a global scale. The international pangolin trade is prohibited. Then, the forestry department of Hebei Province through administrative approval and access to the use of traditional Chinese medicine on the African pangolin scales, where are they from?

 

To this end, on September 29, the CBCGDF pangolin working group sent three applications to the forestry department of Hebei Province, requesting the disclosure of all information on the three administrative approvals.


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By / Maggie