Southeast Asia is a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade. Nonprofits with hotlines to report trafficking produce an outsized ...

Pangolins use powerful claws and long tongues to tear into logs and feed on ants and termites. Their scales are made of keratin, not medicine, and illegal wildlife trafficking remains a major threat ...

This piece comes to us from Charles Emogor, who worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Nigeria as part of the Conservation Leadership Program before moving on to get his PhD, for which he ...

Researchers and conservationists are embarking on a bold initiative to save the world’s most trafficked wild mammal — the pangolin. With core-funding support from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, ...

Despite being the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal — more than elephants, rhinos and tigers combined — pangolins remain virtually unknown to the public. These shy, scaly creatures are primarily ...

DNA samples taken from a wide variety of animal sources can pinpoint hotspots of the illegal wildlife trade, utilizing a new ...

The rescue team took about 20 to 40 minutes to coax and free the pangolin from the machine. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Within Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s Habitat Africa: The Forest, there is a creature that looks like a living pinecone, covered in keratin scales and equipped with powerful claws for digging into ant and ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, for the first time provides a comprehensive set of genomic resources for pangolins, sometimes known as scaly ...

A Nepalese conservationist is studying the impact of forest fires on scaly mammals called pangolins—and inspiring a whole new generation of researchers to appreciate them. Nepal is home to two of the ...