Animal traffickers are taking advantage of remote ivory trade routes to smuggle one of the world's most endangered animals out of Central Africa, new research has found.
Pangolins are scaly, ant-eating mammals.
Their meat is considered a delicacy and their scales are deemed by some to have magical medicinal properties.
Stirling University led the first ever study into how criminals were sourcing the animals from African forests.
The researchers found pangolins were being transported illegally across remote forest borders in an attempt to avoid increased law enforcement.
The pangolin is the world's most trafficked mammal, and threatened with extinction.=read more
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