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CUC PHUONG, Vietnam, June 30 (Reuters) - Vietnamese conservationist Nguyen Van Thai recalls in detail the moment when, as a boy, he watched his neighbours dig up and kill a female pangolin that had curled up into a scaly ball.
It was an experience that changed a life he now devotes to protecting the critically endangered mammal. With this defence mechanism, she would have been able to defend against all of her natural predators, but not from a killing by human hands, said Thai.
Nguyen Van Thai, el conservacionista de pangolines
Las ocho especies de pangolines que habitan el mundo están amenazadas. Además, sus poblaciones decrecen debido a la acción del hombre.
Para el conservacionista vietnamita
Nguyen Van Thai, la misión de proteger a los pangolines en peligro crítico comenzó desde una edad temprana.
Criado cerca de los
frondosos bosques del Parque Nacional Cuc Phuong, recuerda cuando un niño fue testigo de cómo algunos de sus vecinos desenterraban a una madre pangolín que se acurrucaba en una bola dura y escamosa.
“Con este mecanismo de defensa habría podido defenderse de todos sus depredadores naturales, pero no de la matanza por manos humanas”, dijo Thai.
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