With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed — on their walls, display them as collectibles and even set them in jewelry. In recent […]
  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I bet most of them don’t even make it past border customs on return the the US - just get binned in the airport.

    I hope the Vietnam govt does the right thing here and bans the trade, because I doubt the US will do much to stop demand (education and ecology publicity programs are not the forte of the current admin).