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Animals News tagged with pangolins

40 Pangolins Rescued in Smuggling Stakeout
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pangolins, rescued, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 69 days ago - ecoworldly.com
40 pangolins - including baby pangolins - have been rescued by Malaysian authorities.
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11 Cool Facts About Pangolins! Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pangolins, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 85 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Pangolins - scaly, toothless anteaters that resemble a giant walking artichoke - are being hunted to near extinction in Southeast Asia to meet the demands of illegal trade in pangolin meat and body parts in China.
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Nearly 100 Endangered Pangolins Rescued
Animals  (tags: poahers, wildlife, trade, pangolins, rescued, wildife, slaughtered )

Simone
- 99 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Malaysian authorities rescued nearly 100 pangolins from a poacher who was planning to sell the endangered animals for meat and "medicine." A raid on a house in northern Kedah by officials from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks yielded 98
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Pangolin Populations Plummet as Poaching and Illegal Trade Intensifies
Animals  (tags: animals, pangolins, poaching, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, killing, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 143 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Rising demand for pangolins, mostly from mainland China, compounded by lax laws is wiping out the unique toothless anteaters from their native habitats in Southeast Asia, according to a group of leading pangolin experts
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REUTERS VIDEO--14 Arrests in Asia Over Rare Remains-"14 Tonnes of Endangered Pangolins or Scaly Anteaters"
Animals  (tags: CHINA, PANGOLINS, ENDANGERED, humans, slaughter, cruelty, killing, protection, endangered, animals, animaladvocates )

Brenda
- 485 days ago - reuters.com
"The pangolins were packed and ready for export to China via seaports in Sumatra and Java," the conservation groups quoted Indonesian Police Commissioner Didid Widjanardi as saying after the raid in Palembang in South Sumatra.
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Butchered Tigers, Leopards Seized on Thai-Lao Border: Navy
Animals  (tags: tigers, leopards, pangolins, death, killed, animals, AnimalWelfare, endangered, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 675 days ago - afp.google.com
Six slaughtered tigers and five leopards have been seized along with 275 live pangolins as traffickers tried to smuggle them across the Mekong River into Laos, the Thai navy said Wednesday. The animals were being loaded off trucks and onto a boat when
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