在各國陸續對穿山甲走私加強管理後，台灣是否可能成為下一個走私中繼點？從去年查獲的穿山甲屠體貨櫃等事件中，冒出台灣穿山甲保育的警訊。

台灣是全球少數的穿山甲棲息地，更擁有全球數一數二的穿山甲保育技術，但你對穿山甲有多了解呢？你知道穿山甲不只進食習慣特殊，甚至還會「佛心」留食物給其他小動物嗎？

In April, we found five pangolins at a zoo in the southern city of Guangzhou. They had been seized in a sting operation on smugglers in a nearby town a few weeks earlier.

《報導者》參與全球環境報導聯盟主導的《穿山甲報告》計畫，和14國媒體合作，一探穿山甲遭盜獵走私的真相。以最大的消費市場中國為核心，描繪橫跨全亞洲的完整產業鍊，使得穿山甲成為世界上被走私最嚴重的哺乳動物。

“When there are outsiders who want to buy it from us, that’s when we hunt it and we sell it. If there are no buyers, we won’t hunt it,” said the hunter.

Over 3,000 live pangolins have been seized while being trafficked in a total of 44 seizure cases in the land route that extends from Cau Treo at the Laotian border to Móng Cái at the Chinese border.

China’s pangolin population has dropped over 90% due to massive poaching for its meat as a delicacy and its scales for medicinal use. We undercover one of the Traditional Chinese Medicine factory in southern China to see where their pangolin scales came from.

In Taiwan, researchers broke records by tracking down pangolins for eight years. They even filmed the world's first footage of a wild pangolin feeding its baby. The key to success is the collaboration with local residents.

台灣驚人創下8年長期追蹤野外穿山甲的紀錄，在成功經驗背後，專精「聞屎」研究者和當地居民的合作正是關鍵因素。

Keeping rescued Pangolins alive is challenging for that they often die within 100 days of captivity.Taiwan, however, has become the most experienced pangolin conservationist in the world in the past two decades.