World Pangolin Day takes place on February 21, 2026, yet many people still struggle to identify a pangolin or explain why it ...

Rare footage has captured the slow nighttime courtship ritual of pangolins — which ultimately led to the birth of a "pangopup" filmed clinging to its mother's back. "Pangolins are highly sensitive to ...

As World Pangolin Day approaches, the planet’s most trafficked mammal stands as a stark symbol of a booming illegal trade that has stripped nearly a million of these shy creatures from the wild in ...

Overexploitation is a major factor in the decline of many species. Humans exploit at least a third of vertebrate animals to provide food, products, or medicines. A scaly mammal called the pangolin is ...

Genetic research uncovers two hidden pangolin species, revealing how illegal wildlife trade may be driving unknown animals ...

Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is driving West Africa's illegal hunting of one of the world's most ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. — Brookfield Zoo, a member of the North American Pangolin Consortium, joins other organizations in celebrating World Pangolin Day on February 17. The zoo contributes to research on ...

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 significant ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Between 2015 and 2024, global authorities seized 370 metric tons of ...

The Big Little Journeys team works with conservationists to follow the journeys of two endangered animals as they navigate a world transformed by humans. A rescued pangolin in Taiwan is given a new ...

Pippa Ehrlich’s Netflix doc traces a volunteer conservationist’s experience with the rehabilitation of a traumatized pangolin pup rescued from illegal traffickers in South Africa. By David Rooney ...