Scaling Back?

The Pangolin's scales have been removed from the official list of ingredients for 'alternative' Chinese medicines (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/09/china-protect-pangolins-removing-scales-medicine-list-aoe). That is an initially important first move for the conservation of this harmless 'anteater'. It is also necessary  because of the Pangolin's potential as a secondary host for Covid-19, facilitating the transfer from bats to humans. This animal is, however, the world's most trafficked mammal and I am not wholly convinced that people will stop using its scales (even though, like rhinoceros horn, they entirely consist of keratin) just because they have been taken off an official list. There is a good deal of education of the users of Chinese medicine that needs to be done, before we can become convinced that illegal exploitation of Pangolins will cease.