Pangolins

The Cape or ground pangolin in Zimbabwe. © Christopher Scott/Getty

Pangolin scales can still be legally traded and used in China

Hope the baby Sunda pangolin being bottle-fed. © ZSL/Mahidol University

Baby wild pangolin rescued and nursed back to health in Thailand

Cape pangolin or ground pangolin (Manis temminckii) foraging during the day in Zimbabwe

The scaly enigma of pangolins, and how that could help to save them

Long-tailed (black-bellied) pangolin in Cameroon.

Pangolin guide: where they’re found, and why they’re the most trafficked animal in the world

A young pangolin is held by a carer.

Pangolins under pressure: why these unique mammals are threatened with extinction

Kosin stepping out into his new home. © Yingboon-Chongsomchai/ZSL Thailand

Rescued pangolin released back into the wild

The tree pangolin is one of the four pangolin species found in Africa (there are four more species in Asia) © Tim Wacher / ZSL

Record haul of pangolin scales seized

This is Temminck's ground pangolin, an African species found from Chad to South Africa. © African Pangolin Working Group

Standing up for pangolins