The poor old pangolin, now the world’s most trafficked animal, is receiving a boost this Christmas from an unlikely source: the cocktail drinkers of London.
“With its armoured shell and peculiar gait,” says The Daily Telegraph, it “looks more like an anteater prepped for medieval battle than an animal under threat.” But the threat is severe: an estimated 100,000 of the creatures are killed each year for their scales, which are used in traditional Asian medicine.
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