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Pangolin scales, which are used for medicinal purposes, can cost about $3,000 per kilogram. The Pangolin, which typically weighs anywhere from 80-85 lbs, or 31-38 kilograms, can be harvested completely to roughly $10,000 per animal! Add in the scales and you could be looking at a substantial payday. Cambodia, seized over 3,500 animals in 2014, and arrested 125 poachers illegally killing these animals. Authorities have said that seizures have declined, however they say the reason is because of a decline in the Pangolin population as a whole; so it isn’t exactly good news.
