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Catching sharks, cutting off their fins and tossing them in the ocean is not allowed in Colombia, but it’s happening.

Despite laws protecting pangolins, an investigation at major trade hubs found consumption and trade of the nearly extinct animal to be pervasive and brazen.

De la menace qui plane sur le poisson totoaba comme sur d’autres espèces animales jusqu’au développement du crime organisé, les dérives liées au secteur de la médecine traditionnelle chinoise sont nombreuses.

The world’s most trafficked mammal is a solitary anteater resembling an artichoke: the pangolin. Prized for its scales, particularly for traditional medicine in China, this quiet animal is at the centre of a sophisticated, ...

A global investigative report has alleged that as many as a dozen Malaysian policemen are playing a key part in the international smuggling trade for pangolins, the endangered species widely considered the world’s most ...

Chinese demand for pangolin is driving criminality across Africa and Asia according to a series of country reports on the underground trade.

The result of a nine-month investigation by more than 30 journalists around the world, The Pangolin Reports is a series of investigative reports that document the poaching and smuggling of pangolins, the scaly anteaters that ...

Reporters follow illegal trade from West African bushmeat markets, to middlemen in Asia, and finally to mainland China. Investigations found astounding profit margins: Scales bought for US$5 per kilogram in Nigeria can be ...

Poaching associated with the ivory trade is estimated to cause an 8% annual loss in the world elephant population. Although international trade in ivory was banned by CITES in 1989, elephant population continue to suffer.

Little known, massively trafficked and facing extinction because of the scales meant to protect it. The pangolin is a remarkable creature, not least because of its unusual biology and character, but also because despite being ...