A Temminck’s pangolin learns to forage again, near Harare, Zimbabwe, after being rescued from traffickers on the Zimbabwe-South Africa border and rehabilitated.

A man tries to stop the photographer from photographing four juvenile pangolins for sale in an illegal bushmeat market in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

A young woman who works as a street food trader in a small town 60 miles from Yaoundé, Cameroon, holds the tail of a juvenile pangolin she is about to slaughter.

Undercover police and members of a wildlife law enforcement NGO, detain men who tried to sell more than 700 kilograms of giant pangolin scales to an undercover agent, in Douala, Cameroon. A price of US$100,000 was negotiated for the scales before the bust.

Members of the Transnational Organised Crime Unit of Côte d'Ivoire sit with a recent confiscation of 3,600 kg of pangolin scales, in the car park of their offices, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

A sixth-generation traditional medicine doctor and his wife grind pangolin scales with herbs, in Duong Lam, Vietnam.

Members of the Vietnam anti-poaching team and of the NGO Save Vietnam’s Wildlife walk upriver to release 25 rescued pangolins into remote Pu Mat National Park, in Vietnam. From 218 to early 2019, they jointly rescued 511 pangolins and returned 198 to the wild.

Bawr, a hunter from the countryside, holds a pangolin he has brought to the city to sell to a middleman, in Lumajang, Indonesia. He says that he brings in pangolins at least twice a week.

A man reaches for a pangolin that is about to be slaughtered and prepared for a meal in a restaurant on the outskirts of Guangzhou, China. Pangolin meat at the restaurant sells for around US$376 per kilogram.

A caregiver at a farm for rescued, illegally trafficked pangolins outside Harare, Zimbabwe, helps a pangolin to find ants and termites to eat.

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