The pangolin is greatly sought after for its various body parts, largely driven by demand from
China. The mammal has been driven to the edge of extinction in Asia, with two Asian …

The use of robust ecological data to make evidence-based management decisions for highly
threatened species is often limited by data availability, and local ecological knowledge …

Beliefs, myths and folklore can directly influence the way we interact with animals,
determining whether these animals are persecuted or protected by humans. However …

Traditional medicine has been practised in Ghana for centuries with the majority of
Ghanaians still patronising the services of traditional healers. Throughout Africa a large …

Abstract The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (JEET), throughout its 15 years of
existence, has tried to provide a respected outlet for scientific knowledge concerning the …

Pangolins are threatened by overexploitation for local and international use. They are
subject to an international commercial trade ban, and are also the focus of other …

Two pangolin species, the Chinese pangolin and the Sunda pangolin, occur in mainland
China (MC). The Chinese pangolin was once widely distributed throughout provinces south …

Background Pangolins are trafficked in unsustainable volumes to feed both local and global
trade networks for their meat and the medicinal properties of their derivatives, including …

India has been identified as a source country for the illegal international trade in
endangered pangolins,“scaly mammalian anteaters”, widely considered as the “world's most …

An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders,
and the customers--and of those fighting against it Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the …