#Ghana

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Attempted Smugging 357kg Pangolin Scales Discovered at Vietnam’s Noi Bai Airport

5 Apr, 2017  in Pangolins in the News  tagged #Africa / #Caught / #Conservation / #Disgusting / #Endangered / #Ghana / #Nigeria / #Pangolin / #PangolinConservation / #Pangolins / #Smuggling / #Threatened / #Traffic / #Vietnam / #WestAfrica / #Wildlife by Pangolin Conservation

Customs officers detected two consignments containing pangolin scales at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on April 4. The consignments were transported from Ghana to Noi Bai on February 27. Recently, many consignments of pangolin scales were uncovered at the airport, including one from Cameroon containing 357kg of scales. The traditional use of pangolin scales to treat blocked milk ducts is touted by a number of websites online, but doctors of traditional medicine said scientific […]

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GOOD NEWS: Pangolin DNA Database is Being Developed to Combat Smuggling

4 Sep, 2016  in Pangolin Blog / Pangolins in the News  tagged #Africa / #Bangkok / #Benin / #Cameroon / #Caught / #China / #Conakry / #Congo / #Conservation / #Disgusting / #DNA / #Endangered / #Extinction / #Forensics / #Ghana / #HongKong / #Illegal / #India / #Indonesia / #Kenya / #Kinshasa / #Malaysia / #Nepal / #Nigeria / #Pangolin / #PangolinConservation / #Pangolins / #Singapore / #Smuggling / #SouthKorea / #Thailand / #Threatened / #Togo / #Traffic / #USAID / #Vietnam / #Wildlife by Pangolin Conservation

This week at the IUCN conference it was announced that the Center for Conservation Biology, at the University of Washington in Seattle, was awarded a grant as part of the USAID Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge. One of 4 grand prize winners. Sam Wasser, Ph.D., and graduate student Hyeon Jong Kim will develop non-invasive genetic tests. Which will allow field researchers to identify what populations and regions poached pangolins originated from. These tests can be instrumental to […]

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