Save Pangolins

02/17/2024

Today is - the day where everyone can celebrate these remarkable animals. Why do we celebrate when the are still so gravely threatened? Because without hope, without action, nothing will change. Please join us today by sharing and liking - and supporting our conservation efforts via the Pangolin Crisis Fund . 🫶🐜

📸: Ground pangolin in Kenya - Mark Boyd

11/03/2023

11/03/2023

"Even in the most improbable of situations, conservation works. We just need to do more of it." —Jon Paul Rodríguez, Chair of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission

Pangolins have become a conservation priority globally in recent years as they're the most highly trafficked wild mammal, with upwards of 200,000 consumed annually for their meat and scales in parts of Asia.

Pangolins are especially vulnerable to poaching because of their slow reproductive rate, their sensitivity to capture-induced stress, and their instinct to curl into a ball when threatened rather than try to escape.

Though some laws exist to protect these endangered animals, there’s no doubt we need more education.

We focus on behavior change campaigns in places like China and Vietnam designed to educate consumers and make the consumption of pangolin products socially unacceptable. Two years after the launch of our campaign in China, we saw a 28.5% decrease in the perceived medicinal value of pangolin scales!

The more we increase public awareness of the plight of the pangolin, the more we can increase conservation efforts and protect these remarkable animals from extinction.

11/03/2023

Recently, I travelled to Kenya to visit The Pangolin Project, a PCF grantee working to save the last giant pangolins in Kenya. As the home of Kenya’s last giant pangolins, it is critical to protect this landscape. Giant pangolins are really special—so beautiful and elusive that conservationists ...

11/02/2023

Why are pangolins hunted or poached?

Pangolin scales consist of keratin, a substance found in fingernails, hair, and horns. Despite lacking any substantiated medicinal properties, these scales are utilised in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine to try and combat ailments such as arthritis, lactation, tumours and ulcers. Additionally, pangolins are hunted for their meat, be it for bushmeat or selling pangolin meat as fine delicacies in Asia.

Would you like to know more about pangolins?

You can become a certified Pangolin Guardian by taking our FREE online course - https://guardians.pangolin.africa/

This course will educate you on African Pangolins, and once completed, you'll receive a certificate of achievement to demonstrate your new knowledge.

Don't forget to tag us Pangolin.Africa and use the hashtag when you graduate.

Image credit: Eye of the Pangolin 📷

11/01/2023

10/31/2023

10/29/2023

A new EIA UK investigation has found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products

10/27/2023

Love pangolins? Here are 10 things you didn’t know about this incredible endangered species.

10/27/2023

BREAKING: We reveal the global investors in traditional medicines made with endangered wildlife

A new EIA UK investigation has found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products

Manufactured by 72 Chinese companies and licensed by the National Medical Products Administration of China, some of those identified also contain tiger and rhino, in contravention of recommendations made by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

EIA has also identified 62 banks and financial institutions – many of them Fortune 500 companies and household names – based in Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, Switzerland, the UK and USA which have invested in three publicly listed Chinese pharmaceutical groups manufacturing nine of the products stated to contain leopard and/or pangolin ...

* New report out today - get the full story at https://eia-international.org/news/we-reveal-the-global-investors-in-traditional-medicines-made-with-endangered-wildlife/

10/27/2023

10/27/2023