The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed that seven species of pangolin be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Pangolins are often poached for their meat and scales. The World ...

A recent report surveying seizures of pangolin scales and elephant ivory over the past decade has found a sharp decline following the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from media reports, public ...

It is the latest group of animals to be intercepted by authorities after the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Capital ...

International Border Area People’s Welfare Organisation conducts awareness programme on pangolin conservation at Khongka ...

Pangolins, consumed across West and Central Africa and prized in East Asia for their scales, remain the most trafficked mammals. All eight species are threatened with extinction.

Kano/Jigawa Command, has arrested suspects and confiscated 420kg of pangolin scales, valued at millions of naira, smuggled into Kano.

A court in Katni in Madhya Pradesh has sentenced 15 members of an interstate wildlife trafficking gang to three years in jail for poaching a pangolin, a highly endangered species, nine years ago.

Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is driving West Africa's illegal hunting of one of the world's ...

Lion attacks pangolin in extremely rare video Watch what happens when a top predator attempts to sink its teeth into an impenetrable ball of scales.

Analysis - Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales - representing nearly 800,000 African ...