Scaling the odds at Vietnam's pangolin rehab
Pangolin Mi Bo has seen better days. He arrived at a rescue centre in Vietnam missing a paw after it was cut off in a snare trap.
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I.Coast seizes record three tonnes of pangolin scales
Authorities in Ivory Coast have seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales worth an estimated $82,000, in what officials on Thursday called a "massacre".
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Jul 27, 2017
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Thai police seize nearly 200 pangolins
Thai police Tuesday said they had seized almost 200 live protected pangolins, which are prized in China and Vietnam as an exotic meal and for use in traditional medicine.
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Sep 17, 2013
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Study of Chinese pangolins shows their natural habitat has been cut in half
A team of researchers from China and the U.K. has found that the natural habitat available for the Chinese pangolin has been cut in half over the past half-century. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
Back from extinction: a world first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild
Pangolins are one of the most illegally trafficked animals on the planet and are suspected to be linked to the current coronavirus pandemic.
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Jun 4, 2020
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Pangolins set new world record… but no one is celebrating
What is the fastest thing on four legs? Which is the world's smallest mammal? How much did an elephant bird's egg weigh? When I was a child, I was fascinated by this kind of animal fact. And still am, if I'm honest. Inevitably, ...
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Mar 13, 2019
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Protected pangolins seized from Philippine boat
Philippine authorities have seized 23 protected scaly anteaters found hidden in a cargo boat, in the second case of suspected trafficking of the species in a month, officials said.
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Apr 23, 2013
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Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal
UCLA scientists and colleagues have created a genetic source-to-destination map of the most trafficked mammal in the world—the pangolin—using samples from living white-bellied pangolins and scales from the animals confiscated ...
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Dec 14, 2023
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Malaysia torches 2.8 tonnes of African pangolin scales
Malaysia on Thursday torched nearly three tonnes of seized scales of endangered pangolins worth $9 million in a bid to deter illegal wildlife trafficking from Africa.
Ecology
Dec 6, 2018
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In South Africa, plans for a refuge for pangolins in peril
Monitored by a conservationist, a young pangolin slurped ants with a long tongue near a veterinary hospital that became a temporary home after the animal was found near the body of its mother, killed by a jolt from an electric ...
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Jun 16, 2018
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