How wildlife crime affects the trafficked, the offspring and the planet

Whenever wildlife crime is mentioned, one thinks how it always resonates with dangers of species extinction, loss of biodiversity, threats to human life. Images of either dead animals or their products displayed in markets or people shelves further intrench these ideas. However, little light is shed on the effects wildlife trafficking has on the offspring of the trafficked animal, especially the world’s most trafficked mammal – the pangolin.