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#WorldPangolinDay

IFAW: In just ten years, it’s estimated that 1,000,000 pangolins have been poached. Enforcement efforts are making a difference against strong demand.

What you can do:
🎨 Create pangolin art for awareness (they're the only scaled mammal)
💻 Blog about pangolins
:toot: Show your support on social media
💵 Donate to enforcement efforts

#Wildlife #Conservation

ifaw.org/international/news/wo

IFAWWorld pangolin day: saving the world’s most trafficked mammalIn honor of World Pangolin Day, learn more about the most trafficked animal and how you can help protect it.

Today is #WorldPangolinDay, and to celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Putting a spotlight on the genetic vulnerabilities of the world’s most trafficked mammals.

Read the write-up from @HansZauner in GigaBlog:

gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wo

And read the research in GigaScience here:

doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gi

For #WorldPangolinDay:
Asiatic #pangolin (Manis sp.), Pl. 82 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, c.1825-40.
NHM London
“Reeves was a tea inspector working for the British East India Company in China. He studied the plants & animals he found in China, and commissioned local artists to create beautiful, scientifically accurate paintings of them.”
naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2015

For #WorldPangolinDay Watercolor by an unknown #Chinese artist of 2 pangolins (probably the Sunda Pangolin, Manis javanica, now a critically #endangered species).

"This painting of a pangolin can be found in the 1st volume of the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings. The collection consists of 477 watercolours of flora & fauna that had been painted for Farquhar when he was the Resident of Malacca between 1803 and 1818"

National Museum of Singapore:
roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landin

February 16 is #WorldPangolinDay to draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa & Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional medicines) & by habitat loss & deforestation. This is the largest: the ground pangolin. I made him patterned & colourful to draw attention to him & his kin.

More for #WorldPangolinDay: #DYK there are 8 living species of #pangolin, 4 in #Africa + 4 in #Asia? Unfortunately all are currently threatened with #extinction - they're the most heavily trafficked animals in the world. ☹️
Ivory box, 19th century
Unidentified Edo Artist, Igbesanmwan (Ivory Guild)
#Nigeria, Edo, Benin City
H 6.1 cm x L 16.2 cm x W 10.6 cm
Penn Museum collection:
penn.museum/collections/object
(photographed on display @ museum)

More for #WorldPangolinDay: #DYK the name "pangolin" comes from the #Malay word "pengguling" meaning "something that rolls up" (they curl up into a ball when threatened, protected by their scaly armor)
Squat Jar in the Form of a #Pangolin
#Cambodia, Khmer, c. 1000-1200
Modeled stoneware, applied & incised decoration, brown glaze, 3.75 x 4.75 in. / 9.53 x 12.07 cm
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection: collections.lacma.org/node/240