National Geographic USA – June 2019

(Nora) #1

In Cameroon a young
woman who runs
a food stall prepares
to butcher a white-
bellied pangolin in the
alley behind her home.
Cameroonians have
long eaten the animals,
though their trade was
recently outlawed.
Pangolin scales, which
once were discarded,
are now sold to wildlife
traders in the cities.

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