Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Human and climate-induced threats to pangolins have soared, threatening their survival while worsening ecosystem imbalances and risk to public health, an African conservationist said Friday ahead of World Pangolin Day to be marked on Saturday. Edith Kabesiime, the Wildlife Campaign Manager at World Animal Protection, an international …
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Beijing, China | AFP | China has removed pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, state media reported Tuesday, days after increasing legal protections on the endangered animal. Pangolins were left out of the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia this year, along with substances including a pill formulated with bat faeces, the state-owned Health Times …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five suspects have been remanded to Kitalya government prison on charges of illegal possession of wildlife species. The five appeared on Thursday before Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate Asuman Muhumuza. They are Yasin Muyiga, Pascal Luyiga, James Munguuchi, James Frank and Patrick Alyon. Prosecution contends …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five people have been arrested for illegal possession of pangolins. The arrested include Yasin Muyiga, Pascal Luyiga, James Munguuchi, James Frank and Patrick Alyon. According to the spokesperson of the Criminal Investigations Department of Police Charles Twine, the suspects were found with three live …
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On the hunt for traffickers of the hard scaled mammal Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Ugandan conservationists are determined to fight back against a poaching assault on the pangolin, a small, long-nosed mammal with large overlapping keratin scales and the focus of a multi-billion dollar illicit business, fuelled by soaring …
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast | AFP | Authorities in Ivory Coast have seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales worth an estimated $82,000, in what officials on Thursday called a “massacre”. Eight men of various African nationalities were apprehended overnight on Tuesday as they prepared to sell their …
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