#India

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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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Forensics Expertise Brought to Train Scientists on Pangolin DNA to Help ID Smuggled Products

4 Jul, 2016  in Pangolins in the News  tagged #Africa / #Bangkok / #Cameroon / #Caught / #China / #Conakry / #Congo / #Conservation / #Disgusting / #DNA / #Endangered / #Extinction / #Forensics / #Guinea / #HongKong / #Illegal / #India / #Kenya / #Kinshasa / #Malaysia / #Nepal / #NZG / #Pangolin / #PangolinConservation / #Pangolins / #Singapore / #SouthKorea / #Thailand / #Threatened / #Traffic / #USAID / #Vietnam / #WestAfrica / #Wildlife by Pangolin Conservation

Pretoria, South Africa 4th July 2016—Scientists from Malaysia, Thailand, VietNam, Indonesia, South Korea, Australia and the United Kingdom as well as the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) law enforcement attaché for Southern Africa, last week visited the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (NZG) to learn about the wildlife DNA casework being undertaken to help crack cases with international ramifications. The need for international forensics collaboration was highlighted by the seizure the previous […]

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Good News! Report on Pangolin Poaching Jolts State into Action – India

2 Jul, 2016  in Pangolins in the News  tagged #AZA / #Caught / #China / #Conservation / #Disgusting / #Endangered / #Extinction / #HongKong / #Illegal / #India / #Pangolin / #PangolinConservation / #Pangolins / #Smuggling / #Threatened / #Wildlife by Pangolin Conservation

Taking a serious note of the rising number of pangolin poaching cases, the state government has decided to launch a crackdown on poachers and traffickers. DNA had reported on Saturday how the illegal wildlife trade is thriving in the state. A huge collection of pangolin scales was also seized in Ratnagiri district recently. In July 2015, a huge stash of 44kg pangolin scales was recovered near Chiplun, and in February this year, 12kg scales were recovered […]

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Pangolin Trafficking on the Rise While the Government is in Slumber – India

1 Jul, 2016  in Pangolins in the News  tagged #Caught / #China / #Conservation / #Disgusting / #Endangered / #Extinction / #Illegal / #India / #Pangolin / #PangolinConservation / #Pangolins / #Smuggling / #Threatened / #Wildlife by Pangolin Conservation

Last week, when Ratnagiri police raided a house in the town located on the Konkan coast following a tip-off about an illegal gun being kept there, they stumbled upon a stash of pangolin scales. The seizure is the latest revelation of illegal wildlife trade in body parts of the insectivorous mammal, which is in demand for its supposed therapeutic value in Oriental medicine. Activists and forest officials claim that these seizures — three in Ratnagiri […]

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One Live Pangolin & Four Leopard Pelts Found During Smuggling Attempt

8 Jun, 2016  in Pangolins in the News  tagged #Caught / #China / #Conservation / #Endangered / #Illegal / #India / #Pangolin / #PangolinConservation / #Pangolins / #Smuggling by Pangolin Conservation

India – Forest officials in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district have seized four pieces of leopard skin and arrested six persons on charge of trading in wildlife body parts. One live pangolin was also recovered from the six persons, said Swayam Mallick, Divisional Forest Official (DFO) of Nabarangpur. All the accused have been forwarded to the court. Four motor cycles used by the accused were also seized by the forest squad, he said. Mallick said a series of search […]

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