Gurugram: Endangered pangolin beaten to death as sighting triggers scare
1 Oct 2019
GURUGRAM:
When villagers at Patakpur in Punhana spotted a 2.5-feet-long creature
with scales on Sunday night, they did not know what it was. It looked
like a reptile, had scales and was unlike anything they had seen
before. Afraid and unaware, they killed it.
It was a rare Indian
Pangolin, a Schedule I species, given the highest protection under the
Wildlife Protection Act. It is a harmless species.
“It looked different, it looked dangerous. The villagers got scared and some started chasing it.
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