Demand for their scales has pushed these anteaters to the brink. But why aren’t more conservationists working to protect them ...

A cloud of condensation rises as Shangari Sekar, the assistant laboratory manager for Mandai Wildlife Group, carefully lifts ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2016, all pangolin species were placed under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), meaning that any international commercial ...