United for Wildlife has worked with the online game Angry Birds Friends to raise awareness of critical threat to wildlife through illegal poaching. 17 November 2014: Roll with the pangolins and Unite for Wildlife.Two-year international Pangolin Conservation Initiative is announced, taking place in Cameroon, Thailand and China, with support from Fondation Segré and IUCN Save Our Species. 9 July 2015: New international pangolin conservation initiative.25 January 2016: Saving the world’s most illegally traded wild mammal. In 2015 a major new conservation initiative was launched to raise awareness of pangolins and address the key threats to their survival.17 February 2016: New hope for Thailand’s Sunda pangolins. Video from a remote camera trap in Thailand has given new hope to ZSL’s team of pangolin conservationists.: One very lucky pangolin. A wild Sunda pangolin was rescued by villagers in Southern Thailand with help from ZSL’s Thailand team.Our team in Khlong Nakha Wildlife Sanctuary (KNWS), Thailand, captured some gorgeous camera trap photos of a Sunda pangolin carrying her baby on her tail.
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06 October 2016: International trade ban for world’s most heavily trafficked wild mammal. The world agreeing to crack down on pangolin poaching is possibly the most celebrated success story to come from the global wildlife summit, CITES CoP.Cameroon has become a leader in pangolin conservation in Central Africa with the help of MENTOR-POP (Progress on Pangolins), a fellowship programme developed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with ZSL. 25 April 2017: Cameroon’s commitment to pangolin conservation.: Nepalese Government publicly burns huge illegal wildlife stockpile.15 February 2018: Locating giant ground pangolins using camera traps on burrows.15 February 2018: Launching the World’s First Community-Managed Pangolin Conservation Areas.28 September 2018: A Pioneering Initiative in Pangolin Conservation.6 November 2019: Endangered baby pangolin takes his first steps after rescue from poachers.Their dire predicament will be on the agenda at a major wildlife conference opening in Hanoi on Thursday, which will be attended by Britain's Prince William-a champion of better-known endangered species such as elephants and rhinos. The reclusive pangolin has become the most trafficked mammal on earth due to soaring demand in Asia for their scales for traditional medicine and their flesh, considered a delicacy.Īn estimated one million of the animals, often called "scaly anteaters", have been plucked from Asian and African forests over the past decade, shunting them onto the list of species at the highest risk of extinction.Ībout the size of a small dog, pangolins are defenceless in the wild, curling up into a ball when they are scared, allowing poachers to easily scoop them up.
Rescued from poachers, Mi Bo and dozens of other pangolins are being nursed back to health by Vietnamese conservationists fighting to save the scale-covered creatures from extinction. The rest of his body is marked by red lacerations, and he will probably never regain enough strength to return to the wild.
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