February 21st, 2012
The latest raid on a pangolin-trading syndicate pushes 2012 totals (based on media-reported busts) to over 300 pangolins seized and five arrests made in Thailand alone.
In Thailand’s third pangolin bust of the year, another 111 of the animals have been seized in a major sting on an illegal trading operation.
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February 18th, 2012
Test your pangolin knowledge!
Want to learn more about pangolins? Check out this comprehensive list!
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February 16th, 2012
The Long-tailed pangolin is a world record holder!
Suited in an armor of beautifully colored scales, Africa’s Long-tailed pangolin (Uromanis tetradactyla) is the smallest and most arboreal of all of the world’s eight pangolin species.
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February 16th, 2012
Cape pangolins ROCK!
The Cape Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) is one of the larger and more terrestrial of Africa’s four pangolin species.
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February 16th, 2012
It just doesn’t get much cuter than this!
This cute little Cape pangolin named Chaminuka (“Champ” for short) was recently rescued by the Tikki Hywood Trust in Zimababwe.
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February 10th, 2012
Sharing the love for Africa’s three-cusped pangolin!
The three-cusped pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) gets its name from a unique feature found on their brown, keratinous scales: each one has three points (or keels) on the exposed edge – kind of like a Douglas Fir pine cone!
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February 1st, 2012
Make way for the giant ground pangolin!
The giant ground pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) is the largest of all the eight pangolin species. These pangolins can reach lengths of up to 1.8 meters (nearly six feet).
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February 1st, 2012
A pair of pangolin-smuggling ‘businessmen’ have escaped maximum punishment in Malaysia.
Nearly a year after being busted, two men in Malaysia have been convicted of illegally possessing pangolins and it seems having an ‘elderly mother’ to take care of may have won them both a more lenient sentencing.
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February 1st, 2012
Indian pangolin hitches a ride in the chassis of a new car.
A driver transporting a new car from a showroom in northern India was quite surprised when he discovered a rare creature stowed away in the chassis of the vehicle.
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January 19th, 2012
Sadly, it seems the number seven wasn’t so lucky for pangolins this week, as seven kilograms of their scales were seized in Nepal, another seven kg of scales were seized in the Philippines, and a business called ‘Lucky 7′ was found fronting for an illegal pangolin trade operation.
Nepalese police arrested two men found smuggling seven kilograms of pangolin scales in Nepal only days after Palawan officials apprehended three Chinese nationals running an illicit pangolin trade operation out of their ‘junk shop’ front business.
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