ZSL has supported two EDGE Fellows (in-country conservationists) to lead projects on the Chinese and Sunda pangolins in Nepal and Vietnam, and is currently supporting an EDGE Fellow focusing on the Sunda pangolin in Thailand as part of the Pangolin Conservation Initiative. The Chinese and Sunda pangolins are ranked 91st and 92nd respectively, out of more than 5,000 species, on the Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) mammals list due to their combinations of high evolutionary distinctiveness and critically endangered threat status.
Find out more about the MENTOR POP Fellowship Programme. ZSL has created a cooperative programme with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop a team of early-career Central African and Asian conservation practitioners from varied disciplines to champion the conservation of pangolins in Central Africa. The community engagement is combined with training to ensure that law enforcement staff – from protected area managers, to investigators, prosecutors and judges – have the skills and shared intelligence to prosecute traffickers, especially higher-level traders and criminal kingpins. The project involves working with community members to identify and pursue locally-appropriate sustainable livelihoods as an alternative to engaging in illegal wildlife trade. ZSL is supporting local communities to Nepal to develop and manage two pioneering Community Managed Pangolin Conservation Areas to protect wild pangolin populations. Community-based Pangolin Conservation in Nepal.
The project helped to protect four species of pangolin through supporting anti-poaching patrols and law enforcement at key sites in Cameroon and Thailand, and by initiating work to reduce demand for pangolin products in China. ZSL launched a two-year Pangolin Conservation Initiative, supported by Fondation Segré and Save Our Species, in June 2015. ZSL is championing the conservation of pangolins through engaging with on-the-ground conservationists, key decision makers, the media and conservation organisations around the world. We host the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group and run pangolin conservation projects in Thailand, Nepal and Cameroon. This is despite a commercial trade ban for wild-caught pangolins in Asia that has been in place since 2000. A total ban on commercial trade in all eight species of pangolins was introduced in 2017 but significant illegal trade is still occurring.Īs the populations of the four Asian pangolin species plummet, traders are now looking to Africa to meet demand from markets in East and Southeast Asia. As a result, pangolins are now widely regarded to be the world’s most trafficked wild mammals with more than one million estimated to have been snatched from the wild in the past decade. This is driving unsustainable levels of poaching and illegal trade. Pangolins are declining throughout their range due to increasing demand for their meat, which is eaten as a luxury dish in some places, and their scales and other body parts, which are used in many traditional medicines. All eight species of pangolin are listed as threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List. There are eight species in total, four of which occur in Asia and four in Africa. Their tongues are attached near to their pelvis and are sheathed in a chest cavity. Pangolins have long, powerful claws that are perfect for ripping open ant nests and super long sticky tongues to pick up ants and termites.
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