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Natural World: Pangolins – The World’s Most Wanted Animal
The endearing pangolin is a little-known scaly mammal. Found in Africa and Asia, these shy creatures have an unfortunate tagline – they are the most poached and illegally trafficked animals in the world. Based in Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann rescues and rehabilitates her local pangolins. In a bid to better understand the global issues they are facing, we follow Maria to Vietnam, Thailand and China into the very heart of the crisis, where demand for pangolin products is greatest. In what turns out to be an emotional journey, Maria joins forces with a Chinese megastar to build a campaign to bring awareness to the plight of an animal most people have never even heard of.

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hello maria hi steven how are you
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very well very well it’s good to hear
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from you
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tell me how is honey bun doing
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honey bun is really eating well
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yesterday she ate around 56 times
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just hearing your voice makes me want to
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come home right now thank you very much
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goodbye okay bye
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all right
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[Music]
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let’s go honeybun anyone come
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come let’s go
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let’s go
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oh let’s go yes
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oh it was just so nice to hear stephen’s
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voice
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let’s go maria was just calling and
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greeting you
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let’s go now
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yeah it makes me want to get into a
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plane and just go home and see how
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everybody’s doing myself
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[Music]
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but maria won’t go home just yet
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there is one more destination she must
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visit
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the end of the line for the majority of
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trafficked african pangolins
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in 2017
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chinese customs officials intercepted
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the largest illegal shipment of scales
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on record
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pangolin scales are one of the oldest
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traditional chinese medicines
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and even as recently as last year were
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listed by practitioners as a cure for
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these symptoms of cancer
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scales from historic stockpiles can
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legally be prescribed in hospitals
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but as long as there is a demand for
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pangolin products
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there will be a black market
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you can’t help but observe the fact that
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there’s you know this really really
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ancient culture here
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sort of in conjunction with this really
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really modern culture
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i think if the change is going to come
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here it’s going to come to the younger
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people
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[Music]
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and that’s why maria has come to china
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to join forces with a highly influential
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young woman
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who’s taking a bold approach to
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addressing the demand for pangolin
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products she is one of china’s biggest
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mega stars
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an actress
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a model
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and icon
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angela baby
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hi angela nice to meet you nice to meet
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you maria with over 80 million online
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followers
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she’s been using her considerable public
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profile to seek help for pangolins
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angela baby is a perfect ambassador for
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penguins she’s hitting this whole new
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young generation people really love her
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and she’s very very well known on this
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continent
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[Music]
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it’s a great story and it’s literally
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honeybun story so the little penguin
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that i have that’s exactly her story and
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it happens over and over and over
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wow wow yeah it’s a long time wow
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yeah their tongue is almost as long as
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their body maria is keen to introduce
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angela baby to honeybun
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how old is she
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she’s actually about a year and eight
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months now a year and a month yeah
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oh so cute look how they walk
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they walk almost like dinosaurs yes
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very slowly yeah
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i like this
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she’s thinking
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[Music]
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foreign angela is going to bring a
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totally different perspective to the
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entire campaign of saving pangolins
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pangolins definitely need that high
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profile
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the rhino have gotten it the elephant
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have gotten it
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and pangolins have sort of been left
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behind
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this journey has been phenomenal
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but i’m ready to pack my bags again and
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get on that flight home
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[Music]
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you