Its limbs are equipped with strong claws used for digging into insect nests and for climbing trees (often seen with the Asian Sunda and the African black-bellied pangolin). Pangolins are primarily ...

In a 2014 assessment, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated that if current poaching levels continue, the two most imperiled pangolin species — the Chinese and Sunda ...

This exploitation has occurred despite measures designed to protect pangolins. For example, the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) received protection under Indonesian legislation as early as 1931.

and others including black-bellied pangolins and Sunda pangolins are known to sleep in trees. They emerge in the evening to forage for insects. Pangolins are well adapted for digging: they dig ...

But trafficking, together with habitat loss, remains a problem and has led to the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) and Sunda/Malayan pangolin becoming critically endangered, with the other ...

And it is clearly not working. Asia’s pangolins are vanishing. The Chinese and Sunda pangolins are already critically endangered, while the Indian and Phillipine species are endangered – just one step ...

Photo from Cook-Price, Petko, Makchai, Artchawakom and Suwanwaree (2025) The most at-risk species documented in the survey was a Sunda pangolin, a critically endangered mammal with sought-after ...