Off the scale: Can forensics save the world's most-trafficked mammal?
A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching.
A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching.
Ecology
Jun 28, 2018
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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 ...
Ecology
Jun 16, 2018
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Protecting one of Asia's most formidable apex predators may not seem like the most obvious way to help another species that might be on its dinner menu, but that is precisely what Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is doing ...
Ecology
Mar 12, 2018
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Animal traffickers are taking advantage of remote ivory trade routes to smuggle pangolins - one of the world's most endangered animals - out of Central Africa, a new study has found.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2018
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Ghana is facing calls to update its laws on wildlife crime after fears the country has become a transit route for the illegal trade in pangolin scales.
Ecology
Oct 12, 2017
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The hunting of pangolins, the world's most illegally traded mammal, has increased by 150 percent in Central African forests from 1970s to 2014, according to a new study led by the University of Sussex.
Ecology
Jul 19, 2017
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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.
Ecology
Nov 15, 2016
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Everyone loves animal oddities. Darwin and Lamarck pondered the advantages of the giraffe's long legs and neck, while a few decades later Rudyard Kipling explained how the leopard got its spots. Today genome sequencing is ...
Ecology
Oct 21, 2016
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Reclusive, gentle and quick to roll up into a ball, pangolins keep a low profile.
Ecology
Sep 25, 2016
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As the congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources begins Thursday in Hawaii, environmental policymakers and conservation experts will discuss managing the environment, protecting ...
Ecology
Sep 5, 2016
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