Poaching endangers the populations of endangered species worldwide, and species native to Namibia also suffer from illegal hunting. A key problem that keeps poaching persistent and growing is the continued demand for wildlife products from wildlife crime. And this demand is being fed - among other things by TikTok. TikTok is booming - and the platform is also being misused for the illegal sale of bushmeat. A recent study shows that public TikTok accounts in Africa advertise meat from wild animals, even from highly endangered species such as pangolins. This is because easy access to the internet and social media platforms makes it even easier to trade and consume wild animals by connecting traders and consumers. A team of researchers from Togo, England and China was able to demonstrate this worrying dynamic in the West African country of Togo as an example. Their study, which appeared in "Nature Conservation", examined 80 TikTok videos from public (open) accounts of two venison meat traders in Lomé, Togo, showing the sale of venison meat between November 2022 and April 2024. The videos showed various smoked wild animals - a total of over 3500 individual animals from 27 suspected species, including mainly birds (40.9%) and mammals (39.6%), but also reptiles (19.5%). Pangolins particularly affected. The most common in the videos were monitor lizards, striped ground squirrels, guinea fowl, francolins, antelopes, white-bellied pangolins and reed rats. However, the comments of viewers in this study indicate that in addition to the species discovered in the videos, other species are already in demand, including frogs, snakes, crocodiles, primates, elephants, lions and leopards.