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Pangolins are amazing, bizarre, adorable creatures, but due to the demand for their scales on the illegal market, they’re also the most trafficked animal in the world. In order to turn the tide, wildlife veterinarian Elias Mubobo knows the solution rests in the hands of the local community — many of whom have never seen a pangolin in the wild. Native to Central and Southern Africa, pangolins feed exclusively and voraciously on ants and termites, and they’re perfectly specialized for this type of hunt. They’re the only scaled mammal on Earth. To the local community, spotting a pangolin is a sign of a bountiful harvest and abundant rainfall. But it’s their most defining feature — their scales — that make them the target of illegal animal traders seeking the scales for use in traditional medicine. Hundreds of thousands of pangolins are illegally trafficked each year. Wildlife veterinarian Elias Mubobo grew up near Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique — known as “nature’s living laboratory” and true haven for community-based conservation — but still, he had never seen a pangolin during his youth. Now, many years later, Elais works as a wildlife veterinarian in Gorongosa and helps rehabilitate pangolins to be reintroduced back into the surrounding Park. His work also includes outreach to local children to rally community support in protecting pangolins they spot in the wild — and the efforts are working. So far, Elias’s Pangolin Rehabilitation Center has received 101 pangolins, 80 of which came from the illegal poaching market, and 21 that we received voluntarily from the people who live around Gorongosa National Park. Follow us:   / wildhopetv   Join our community: https://wildhope.tv Get our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/irGMng Share this with a friend!