NEWS – Changes at the African Pangolin Working Group
We value your contribution to our mission to save the most trafficked mammal! With your help, we have had our best year so far and we have new and exciting plans for the future of our organisation. You will find our Chairman’s report here. We…
Groundbreaking sentence in pangolin poaching case
On 17 September, 2019 at Silver Oaks, Pretoria, members of the Cullinan Stock Theft & Endangered Species Unit, assisted by members from K9 Benoni, Silverton and Law Enforcement Officials from the Gauteng Department of Agriculture & Rural Development also known as the Green Scorpions, and…
WATCH – Pangolins are People Too
On Thursday 13 May 2021 we took part in a very enjoyable panel discussion hosted by Struik Nature (an imprint of Penguin Books) and Richard Peirce, author of Pangolins: Scales of Injustice While we did not get to all the questions posed before the event,…
EVENT – Pangolins are people too
Thursday 13 May 2021 at 18h30 Join environmental activist, author and broadcaster, Richard Peirce, as he chairs a panel discussion about pangolins and their survival. Pangolins rescued from traffickers come in all shapes, sizes and states of health. Do the rehabilitators ever feel like giving…
IN THE NEWS – Four pangolins rescued in a week from illegal trade
On the 7th of August 2020, Sheree Bega from the Saturday Star wrote this story from information supplied by the African Pangolin Working Group. There has been a poaching spike out there with many pangolins being retrieved – this is about one of the busiest…
A open letter in response to the total ban on global “wet markets”
Dear Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu (Director General of the World Health Organisation) and Ms Inger Andersen (Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program), STATEMENT ON NOVEL CORONOVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC AND A RESPONSE TO THE CALL ON THE TOTAL BAN ON GLOBAL “WET MARKETS” Preamble…
IN THE NEWS – China urged to burn stockpiles of pangolin scales
The following article was published by Oxpeckers. Environmental groups say a symbolic gesture would send a clear signal to the public that use of pangolin scales is no longer permitted. Alexis Kriel reports A call on the Chinese government to burn its stockpile of pangolin…
IN THE NEWS – Africa’s pangolins will be extinct in 20 years if urgent action is not taken
The following article was written by Sheree Bega and published in the Saturday Star Professor Ray Jansen was sitting on his stoep last week Tuesday enjoying the sunset with his Labradors and drinking a cold beer when the call came through. A senior police officer…
IN THE NEWS – Pangolin highlights reality of poaching crisis
The following article was written by René de Klerk and published by Safarinews.org During August, news of a poached pangolin reached the team at the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital (JWVH). While the rescue of live pangolins from the illegal trade in South Africa during sting…
IN THE NEWS – Pangolin rescued from poachers in North
The following article was published by the Pretoria North Rekord One poacher is still at large after four others were arrested in possession of a pangolin. A pangolin who has been named Zambezi was rescued this morning in a joint operation outside the Kolonnade Retail…