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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  19 February

  All those animals such as rhino and elephants and pangolins and seahorses and sharks that are believed to be "medicinal" .

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  19 February

  It's infuriating and governments in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and so on could do so much more to educate their citizens about the horrors of animal based "medecines" and the damage their acquisition is doing to wildlife populations and the environment, not to mention the dreadful practice of farming live bears for their bile.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• floralies Posts: 2,718

  19 February

  And the thousands of donkeys for their hides, which I see today that many of the African nations have signed up to stop.....we shall see.

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• Red maple Posts: 1,138

  19 February

  It’s so saddening, frustrating and dis-heartening that even today, when we are supposedly “more enlightened”, such atrocities continue in order to create so called “medicines” that are claimed to do such wonderful things for the human body. Obviously, big money is being made, or these dreadful cruelties would not happen. 

  Educating the people who buy these “medicines” is the only way to stop it, I think, but whilst it is a lucrative trade, resistance to doing so will be huge - money speaks volumes.

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  19 February

  I've been fortunate enough to see Pangolins in the wild and they excited me more than any of the bigger animals except the painted dogs.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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