Sentences with phrase «pangolin species»

Two of the four Asian pangolin species are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

For example, some pangolin species may be approaching extinction in numerous areas due to hunting for medicinal products, but little is known about their remaining numbers [79].

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These cover the parts and tissues of a whole host of threatened species, including African grey parrots, all species of pangolins, and Barbary macaques.

Despite previous logging and farming in the planted forests zone, more than 400 vertebrate species, including bears, civets, macaques, leopard cats, mongooses, pangolins, and porcupines, have been spotted there.

All eight of the world's species of pangolin, which range from 30 to 100 cm (12 to 39 in) length, are threatened with extinction.

CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, has banned exports of all four Asian species since 2000; two, the Chinese pangolin and the Sunda pangolin, were listed as endangered in the IUCN's Red List in 2008, making all international trade in them or their parts iSpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora, has banned exports of all four Asian species since 2000; two, the Chinese pangolin and the Sunda pangolin, were listed as endangered in the IUCN's Red List in 2008, making all international trade in them or their parts ispecies since 2000; two, the Chinese pangolin and the Sunda pangolin, were listed as endangered in the IUCN's Red List in 2008, making all international trade in them or their parts illegal.

These include species such as the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica), the Bahia Tapaculo (Eleoscytalopus psychopompus), the Long - billed Black Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii) and Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii).

Some of the species that like edges are invasive like the boa constrictor, while the ones huddled into the deep forest are more likely to be threatened with extinction — like the Sunda pangolin.»

The Sunda pangolin is currently a critically endangered species.

She is a director for a non-profit called Global Conservation Force that helps many endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, giraffes and pangolins.

At the world's top zoos, you'll run into familiar characters like elephants, polar bears, and walruses, as well as meet lesser - known species like the Thailand clouded leopard and the armadillo - like pangolin from Asia and Africa.

The project features documentary video and photography of Kresberg's experience working with vultures, pangolins and other endangered species in Africa with the Rare and Endangered Species Trust species in Africa with the Rare and Endangered Species Trust Species Trust (REST).

The pangolin is an endangered species of anteater that's considered a delicacy in China, and its scales are believed in Chinese folklore to aid breastfeeding mothers.