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The pangolin is known as a "scaly anteater" but isn't actually related to anteaters, though both dine on insect nests.

Used as food, pets, medicine and décor, plants and animals across the globe are threatened by international trade. A recent study reveals concerning gaps in trade protections for the most at-risk animal and plant species. More than 900 species don’t have international trade protections, according to the study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution by […]

Progress roundup: Lead shot is banned near EU wetlands, a broad new program to save pangolins, and womens firsts in Bolivia and the Navajo Nation.

/PRNewswire/ -- Researchers and conservationists are embarking on a bold initiative to save the worlds most trafficked wild mammal — the pangolin. With...

Researchers and conservationists are embarking on a bold initiative to save pangolins, the world’s most trafficked wild mammal.

Local people and communities should be given greater control over the international trade in wildlife in order to make the multi-billion-pound industry more sustainable, according to a group of scientists who are re-examining the treaty that controls wildlife trade. The treaty is set to approach its 50th year. The Convention on International Trade in Fauna […]

Are wildlife trade bans backfiring? December 20, 2020 Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Customs officials in Singapore made a grisly discovery last April at a port on the islands southern coast. Inside shipping containers supposedly transporting frozen beef from Nigeria to Vietnam, they found bloodstained sacks stuffed with 14 tons of scales stripped illegally from pangolins — scaly anteaters endemic to Africa and Asia. The seizure, worth about $38.7 mil...