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Malaysia is battling to clamp down wildlife trafficking whose scales are highly valued in traditional Chinese medicine. [Photo: AFP]
Malaysia on Thursday torched nearly three tonnes of seized scales of endangered pangolins worth $9 million in a bid to deter illegal wildlife trafficking from Africa.
The Southeast Asian nation is battling to clamp down on rife trafficking through its borders of the ant-eating mammals, whose scales are highly valued in traditional Chinese medicine.
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