I remember my Chinese ex watching something about endangered critters somewhere, and turning to me, very angry, wanting to know why Western media would do this.
I was a bit baffled by her reaction, and said something about raising awareness so people know that the critters should be protected.
She gave me her trademarked "how are white people this stupid?" look for about the count of three, then told me:
"The more Chinese people know it is endangered, the more they will want to eat it".
Farming Pangolins is a good idea, but I expect, in the context of Chinese culinary culture, its like trying to stop a freight train with a butterfly net. If farming them is troublesome, difficult to scale or just slow, it will become just an ear-tagging process for wild-caught ones.
I don't have a good solution, though. If the human populations where pangolins live want to hunt them to extintion to make a quick buck, that's their right.
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