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Three South African suspects were arrested and a case was opened at Cullinan police station. They are expected to appear in court soon.

The vet says Olivia, underweight when rescued, is responding well to medical treatment and feeding.

Facebook post of pangolin could be a phishing scam By Thobeka Ngema Share Durban - A professor who works on conserving the pangolin in Africa said the Facebook post of a pangolin, allegedly on sale, in KwaDukuza, north of Durban could be a phishing scam. ​On Friday Manuel Chafera posted on a number of Facebook groups, cheap houses for sale are rently around Durban only, Facebook Market, KwaDukuza Seconds, Kwa-Zulu Natal Ads and Durban & Surrounding Areas Buy Swap & Sell, an image of a pangol...

Picture for illustrative purposes: Michel Bega A pangolin’s life is hanging by a thread after she was rescued from the claws of six poachers in a bust last week in Kyalami. The pangolin, known as Kya, was rescued in a sting operation at Kyalami Corner where six suspects were arrested. The suspects will soon make their second appearance in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court for their formal bail applications. Kya was the fourth ...

Picture: Supplied Six suspects suspected of being part of a pangolin poaching syndicate will appear in the Midrand Magistrate’s Court today after they were caught red-handed with a captured animal earlier this week. On Wednesday, a sting operation lead by the Hawks’ wildlife trafficking team and the Pretoria-based national intervention unit, along with Pangolin Africa, which is attached to the University of Pretoria, and Mi...

Pangolins pushed to the brink of extinction 26 Feb 2021 A pangolin skin is displayed amongst other exotic and illegal animal parts at a stall on February 17, 2016 in Mong La, Myanmar. Mong La, the capital of Myanmars Special Region No. 4, is a mostly lawless area where Chinese tourists are able to cross the border for exotic poached animals, gambling, and prostitution. (Photo by Taylor Weidman/Getty Images) Time is running out to save the imperilled and enigmatic pangolin from certain extinctio...

weekly newspaper. It has been a big year for the pangolin: the glaring stage light of Covid-19 has fallen on this shy, scaly mammal as the possible source of the virus that has brought the world to its knees. In February last year, Daily Maverick broke the story linking pangolins as the likeliest vector of Covid-19 via bats to humans. The exact source has not been confirmed yet, but the attention, though it comes from panic and fear, might be the best thing that ever happened to what has been ...

Lesser-known facts about the ancient, ghostly pangolin  Nica Richards Picture: Michel Bega Trying to get the number of wild pangolins ‘is like trying to count a ghost – it is almost impossible’. Pangolins are some of the world’s oldest inhabitants, but illegal trade ma...