Overexploitation is a major factor in the decline of many species. Humans exploit at least a third of vertebrate animals to provide food, products, or medicines. A scaly mammal called the pangolin is ...

When pangolins make the headlines in the news, they are mostly about pangolin scales being either trafficked or seized by Customs. However, a new study finds that in Cross River state, pangolins are ...

Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat – rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine – may be driving West Africa’s illegal hunting of one of the world’s most ...

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 pangolins – were ...

World Pangolin Day takes place on February 21, 2026, yet many people still struggle to identify a pangolin or explain why it matters. These quiet, scale-covered mammals resemble small armored ...

World Pangolin Day takes place on February 21, 2026, yet many people still struggle to identify a pangolin or explain why it matters. These quiet, scale-covered mammals resemble small armored ...

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that the scales of a pangolin, a small ant-eating mammal, are "cool" and "salty." Eating those scales, the TCM thinking goes, may help expel wind, reduce swelling ...

Chinese officials have seized 3.1 tonnes (more than 3.4 tons) of illegally trafficked pangolin scales from a port in Shanghai, according to state media. It's the largest such seizure China has ever ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sri Lanka’s small population of Indian pangolins has long been threatened by hunting for domestic bushmeat consumption, but conservationists have ...

Over a ton of pangolin scales worth more than $1.4 million were seized on Aug. 16, 2023, in the northeastern Thai province of Kalasin. The scales were reportedly meant to be transported out of the ...