All pangolins are already listed on Appendix 2 but with a zero quota for Asian species. This has caused major problems, say conservationists. "When pangolins are just un their product froms as scales or meat, it's impossible to tell the Asian ones from the African ones," said Jeff Flocken from International Fund for Animal Welfare. "Up to now all pangolins were on Appendix2 with a zero quota trade in Asian species, but what that allowed was a massive trade in African species and also enabled a whole mechanism for laundering Asian ones as Aferican ones which are legal.