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pangolins · the most trafficked wild mammal on earth
killed for scales and meat · estimated
200,000
a year
6.34e-3
a second
548
a day
what the scales are made of
fingernail
keratin. the same protein as your nails and hair. no medicine has ever been shown to be in it.
method Wildlife Justice Commission and TRAFFIC seizure analyses scaled to trade; Challender et al. 2020.
- china removed pangolin scales from its official pharmacopoeia in 2020. the trade continues.source: Wildlife Justice Commission 2020; Challender et al. 2020; TRAFFIC
- about a million were taken between 2000 and 2013. all eight species are now threatened.source: IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=pangolins" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · pangolins"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- Wildlife Justice Commission and TRAFFIC seizure analyses scaled to trade; Challender et al. 2020.
- range
- 100,000–400,000/yr; ~1 million 2000–2013
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- seizure-based; the true trade is larger by an unknown factor.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-020 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0