130 PANGOLINS DIE OF ‘ RESCUE FAILURE’

A TOTAL of 130 pangolins seized from smugglers by authorities in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had died by the end of January of “rescue failure,” TheBeijingNews reported Sunday. The Guangxi forestry department sent 66 live pangolins from 2015 to 2016 to the Guangxi Shengkai Investment Co., which owned a pangolin breading base in Xianggu Village, Beihai. The department also sent another 64 live pangolins from 2014 to 2017 to the Yuehuiteng steel company in Foshan, South China’s Guangdong Province, according to The Beijing News. The 130 pangolins — Sunda pangolins, also known as the Malayan or Javan pangolin, seized by Guangxi authorities from smugglers — had all died by January, The

BeijingNews reported. Pangolins are listed as extremely endangered animals. In captivity, the armadillo-like animals have a high mortality rate and require a qualified team, special equipment and techniques to care of them, Wu Shibao, a pangolin

expert and professor at the School of Life Sciences at South China Normal University, told the GlobalTimes on Monday.