Articles for tag: COVID-19, Pangolins, wildlife conservation, Wildlife Crisis, Wildlife Trafficking

Pangolin

Wildlife Justice Commission Reveals Lasting Disruption in Global Wildlife Trade

Jan Otte

Once a thriving transnational criminal activity, the illegal wildlife trade has seen an unexpected and steady downturn since the COVID-19 epidemic. Based on a ground-breaking analysis by the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC), Disruption and Disarray shows that ivory and pangolin scale trafficking has dropped and, shockingly, has stayed that way. But what set off this ...

140,000-Year-Old Pangolin Tracks Found And You Won’t Believe Who Discovered Them

Jan Otte

In a revolutionary find along South Africa’s Cape coast, researchers have identified the world’s earliest fossilized pangolin tracks, dating to as much as 140,000 years ago. But here’s the twist: The prehistoric trail was cracked not with high-tech imaging or artificial intelligence, but through the traditional know-how of Namibia’s Indigenous Master Trackers, whose age-old expertise ...