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Daily Monitor
Daily Monitor
Uganda is greatly endowed with wildlife, flora and fauna. This diversity is, however, threatened by both poaching and wildlife trade. Key among the most targeted species are the pangolins because of their scales. These insect-eating mammals covered in overlapping scales trace their name to the Malay word ‘penggulung,’ that translates to roller. According to Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring NGO, pangolins have been heavily targeted for poaching and trafficking in Uganda. The organisation’s data indicates that between 2012 and 2016, nearly 1,400 pangolins were seized. Rebecca Sandoval, a con…