Since September 24, representatives from more than 180 countries have been gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa for the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention…
Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa for the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (CoP17), voted today to ban the international…
If you had to guess, what would you say are the most trafficked mammals in the world? Apes? Elephants? Maybe even rhinos? The answer is actually pangolins, also known as…
Governments and NGOs are pushing to ban the commercial trade in pangolins, the world’s most trafficked mammal. They passed a motion last week at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in…
On August 25, Indonesian authorities seized 657 pangolins, weighing about 2.3 metric tons, from a house in Jombang district on the Indonesian island of Java. The pangolins were found vacuum sealed…
This is the first of 20 Mongabay stories highlighting Almost Famous Asian Animals — all to be published by the end of 2016. You can find the complete Almost Famous…
An Indonesian soldier was arrested for wildlife trafficking in Sumatra on Saturday in the latest indication of military involvement in organized crime. The man and a civilian were intercepted in…
Wildlife trafficking is a global problem, revealed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in their first-ever World Wildlife Crime Report. Released late last month, the report finds,…
Pangolins, the armor-clad mammals found in Asia and Africa, are perhaps best known for being the world’s most trafficked animal. Every year, thousands of pangolins get illegally hunted for their…
Illegal pangolin trade in Myanmar is flourishing, according to a recent study published in Global Ecology and Conservation. Myanmar serves both as a source of pangolins, and as a major…
In June, a unique graduation ceremony was held in the city of Bhopal in central India. Fourteen dogs and their 28 handlers performed brief drills to display their newly acquired…
Dead pangolins seized by customs authorities at Surabaya's Juanda International Airport. Photo: Petrus Riski Indonesian customs officials foiled an attempt to smuggle 455 dead pangolins to Singapore from an airport…
A baby pangolin was born in the wake of a massive bust in North Sumatra. Photo: Ayat S. Karokaro Following a major seizure of illegal wildlife goods in North Sumatra,…
Frozen, dead Sunda pangolins confiscated by the Indonesian National Police's Criminal Investigation Division in Medan, Sumatra. Photo by: Paul Hilton for WCS. Five tons of frozen pangolin, 77 kilograms (169…
The Cape pangolin, pictured here, could become increasingly imperiled if trade moves from Asia to Africa. Photo by: Maria Diekmann/Rare and Endangered Species Trust. It’s that crazy time of year…
On February 1st, local police seized 42 live Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) from poachers and handed them over to forest rangers in Vietnam's northern province of Bac Ninh. While the…
All pangolins now threatened with extinction, and two considered Critically Endangered The tree pangolin (Manis tricuspis) has been upgraded from Near Threatened to Vulnerable by an IUCN Red List update.…
Sunda pangolin. Courtesy of the Danau Girang Field Centre Lush Cosmetics has agreed to support an effort to battle trafficking of the Sunda pangolin. Lush will provide funding to an…
Dozens of dead pangolins seized by Chinese officials. Photo from: news.163.com In one of the biggest pangolin trafficking cases yet recorded in China, officials confiscated 956 animals stuffed into 189…
Illustration of the African golden cat. Image by: John Gerrard Keulemans. One of the world's least known wild cats may have taken on more than it could handle in a…
