[4] Its common name, pangolin, comes from the Malay word, pengguling, meaning “one who rolls”. This refers to the animal’s habit of rolling its body up when threatened. [6] In Chinese ...

The small animals, whose scales are coveted for use in Chinese medicine, are now among the world’s most trafficked mammals. A Temminck’s ground pangolin named Tamuda searches for a meal of ...

Diekmann said that while conservationists had been pushing for China to remove the pangolin's medicinal status for years, the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the factor behind “99 per cent of the ...

Eight species of pangolin are found on two continents. All are protected under national and international laws, however the illegal international trade in pangolins is continuing. The Chinese ...

PRAGUE--A second Chinese pangolin was born in the Prague zoo in less than two years and is doing well, defying the odds and surprising park officials. The female of the critically endangered ...

China has announced an annual quota of 1 metric ton of pangolin scales for medicinal use, raising concerns among conservationists about potential illegal trafficking despite this being a ...

Instead, the president is allowing the Chinese government until Dec. 31 to address its pangolin failures or suffer economic sanctions. The decision responds to the Secretary of the Interior’s recent ...

5 facts about the critically endangered pangolin Declared as carrying frozen ... scales and snake gall bladders would be used in Chinese medicine. So far, no one has been arrested in connection ...

Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified a new species of Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica) that diverged from the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla ...