On 13 October, an article in ENACT Africa says that Kenya and Tanzania must put in place national, and together lead regional, interventions to curb the illegalities in the legal donkey trade. With donkeys in Kenya being slaughtered at a rate 5 times higher than they’re being bred, it’s projected that there will be none left in the country by 2023. It explains that donkey skins contain gelatin – ejiao – used in traditional Chinese medicine as a traditional remedy for many illnesses, including the coronavirus, and in the cosmetics industry in other Asian countries.
https://enactafrica.org/enact-observer/donkey-rustling-in-the-east-and-horn-of-africa
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