December 20th, 2011

Wishing you and yours a fabulous holiday season from Project Pangolin! Thank you to everyone who is helping to spread the word and raise awareness about these amazing creatures.
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December 12th, 2011
After two wild, high speed chases, authorities have seized a total of 1,174 pangolins – most of them dead – in Vietnam and Sabah, Malaysia since Wednesday.

A wild goose chase on the high seas off Sabah, Malaysia and a high speed car chase in Vietnam over the past week have yielded over 1,000 pangolins destined to be consumed as a delicacy or crushed into ‘medicine’.
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December 9th, 2011
A review of the status of Cambodia’s endangered Sunda pangolins.

The endangered Sunda pangolin is the only species of scaly anteater found in Cambodia, but alarming declines in their numbers have conservationists, scientists, and wildlife managers questioning just how much longer this nation will have any to call her own.
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