Eating and selling bat and pangolin meat has been banned by officials in Gabon. The decision was made over fears related to the global coronavirus pandemic, which is thought to stem from wild animal meat sold at a market in Wuhan, China.
https://www.newsweek.com/eating-bats-pangolins-gabon-coronavirus-pandemic-1496329
“Gabon has signed a law to stop trade in bats and pangolins as a precaution,” Lee White, Minister of Forests, Oceans, Environment and Climate Change, Gabonese Republic, tweeted last Friday.
Two important papers published in Nature and Current Biology show that Bat and Pangolin Coronaviruses may be the source of SARS-CoV-2 which causes #COVID19. Gabon has signed a law to stop trade in bats and pangolins as a precaution. https://t.co/szR7w7PjWRhttps://t.co/2TFLvJYRtu pic.twitter.com/xKFUPhS4cu
— Prof. Lee White CBE (@LeeWhiteCBE) April 3, 2020