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A problem of scale

机译:规模问题

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PANGOLINS are a smuggler's dream. For defence, and when asleep, they roll themselves up into spheres, scales on the outside, to thwart any predator. That makes them easy to handle and pack. And handled and packed they have been, in enormous numbers. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, a worldwide wildlife-preservation organisation, reckons that more than 1m pangolins were traded illegally from their African and Asian homelands over the decade to 2014. That may be a conservative estimate. A paper published last year in Conservation Letters calculates the number of pangolins hunted in central Africa alone as between 400,000 and 2.7m a year. Based on statistics such as these it seems likely that pangolins, of which there are eight species, four African and four Asian, are the most trafficked type of animal in the world.
机译:穿山甲是走私者的梦想。为了防御,当他们入睡时,它们会卷成球形,在外面鳞片状,以阻止任何掠食者。这使得它们易于处理和包装。并经过处理和包装,数量众多。全球野生动植物保护组织国际自然保护联盟估计,到2014年的十年间,超过100万穿山甲从其非洲和亚洲家园非法交易。这可能是保守的估计。去年在《保护信函》上发表的一篇论文估计,仅在中部非洲每年就猎杀穿山甲的数量在40万至270万之间。根据这些统计数据,穿山甲似乎是世界上贩运量最大的动物,其中共有8种,其中4种为非洲,4种为亚洲。

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    《The economist》 |2018年第9077期|70-70|共1页
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