The Environmental Investigation Agency, an international NGO, says growing demand is a prescription for disaster for some endangered animals such as leopards, pangolins and rhinos
China’s demand for donkey meat from Zimbabwe and Namibia could lead to the animal’s extinction.
Licences to kill the animals may have been suspended, but the trade to China goes on
The Mail & Guardian reported the discovery of more than 5 000 donkey hides in a shack in Benoni last week.
More and more donkeys are being slaughtered illegally in South Africa as demand for the skins spikes in China.
An Egyptian donkey has been jailed for stealing corn on the cob from a field belonging to an agricultural research institute in the Nile Delta.