Pangolin is sold at $600 per kilogram in the international market
In an amazing incident, a pangolin — one of the critically endangered species on the earth — on Sunday entered a market on Sargodha road in Chiniot and created panic among shoppers and shopkeepers.
Unfit to recognize the “peculiar creature”, scared individuals expeditiously r contacted rescue officials and sought their help.
Making a quick move via call, the salvage authorities rescue officials immediately arrived at the spot and defeated the “strange animal”, later distinguished as a pangolin.
In the meantime, District Emergency Officer Tahira Khan guided the rescue officials to give up the pangolin to the Wildlife Department with the goal that the creature could be liberated right at home.
It is appropriate to specify here that pangolin is sold at $600 per kilogram in the international market.
Pangolins, scale-covered bug eating warm blooded creatures that are ordinarily the size of a completely mature feline, are for the most part dynamic around evening time, snuffling through deadwood for subterranean insects and termites.
Their scales — made of keratin, similar to human nails — are additionally valued by buyers abroad for their alleged restorative properties, getting genuinely necessary cash.
Accepted to be the world’s generally dealt creature, pangolins are just tracked down in the wild in Asia and Africa, yet their numbers are plunging under tension from poaching.
