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by masklinn 4301 days ago
The pangolin situation is much more dire (warning, may trigger sadness, furor and extreme misanthropy):

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201...

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pangolin-smuggling-sho...

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2014/04/opinion/sutter-ch...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201...

1 comments

Agreed. There are people doing good work in this area, but if we've learnt one lesson, its that the economic gravity tends to win out. In the drug war (not a perfect analogy by any means), as long as US consumer demand exists, people will find a way to provide it. In China, unless you can shape the underlying demand for poached materials in some form (and be more successful than the US has been on drugs), it's going to persist, especially as that country continues to grow richer.