According to the wildlife trade monitoring organization Traffic, an estimated one million pangolins were poached from 2000 through 2013—mainly for their scales, used in traditional medicine.

The pangolin is the world's most trafficked and poached mammal, because of the demand for its meat and scales. Conservationists say an international trade ban announced last year must be strictly ...

However, pangolins are now rare in much of China and southeast Asia due to extensive poaching. BREEDING: These creatures are solitary animals that meet only to mate. They are slow maturing, reaching ...

Last month, officials seized eight tonnes of pangolin scales at a port in Sabah. The move comes after warnings that continued poaching poses an existential threat not only to pangolins ...