National Geographic USA – June 2019
Tikki Hywood Foundation Kampala Yaoundé Douala UGANDA GABON CÔTE D’IVOIRE GHANA NIGERIA TANZANIA SIERRA LEONE LIBERIA CONGO MOZA ...
Surabaya Shenzhen Hong Kong CHINA INDONESIA MALAYSIA VIETNAM THAILAND LAOS MYANMAR INDIA PHILIPPINES NEPAL PAKISTAN TAIWAN ARCTI ...
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A hunter from a village in Indonesia says he delivers pangolins to the city of Surabaya on a weekly basis. Pan- golins are prote ...
for you to think: None of these people seem to be having trouble finding pangolins, so how close to extinction can they be? The ...
scales, which wasn’t hard: They weren’t hidden. “Of course it’s shocking to see—it’s in your face,” Young said later. “But for t ...
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A pangolin peeks from a box on the way up a remote moun- tain in Vietnam, where 25 pangolins rescued from the illegal trade will ...
Sure enough, right after I left the country, police and wildlife officials intercepted the shipment and arrested six people. The ...
and rhino horn, have any physiological effects on humans. But traditional medicine texts hold that the scales can be effective a ...
THESE WOMEN RANGERS REPRESENT A NEW STRATEGY IN GETTING COMMUNITIES TO HELP FIGHT WILDLIFE POACHING. The Brave Ones 102 ...
Petronella Chigumbura, a member of the Akashinga—a nonprofit, all-female anti-poaching unit—practices recon- naissance technique ...
The rangers train with rifles, though some conservationists argue that arming the women increases the threat of violence. Akashi ...
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Rangers train in the mud near their base in northeastern Zimba- bwe. In the bush, the women must be pre- pared to face heavily a ...
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She stares at the image as the truck she’s rid- ing in bounces over the rutted road. The cat’s neck is slashed and its bloody pa ...
elephants to poachers over the last two decades. The Akashinga (“brave ones” in the Shona lan- guage) patrol Phundundu, which bo ...
The Akashinga’s train- ing includes exercises to promote teamwork and increase strength. Here the rangers carry a tree trunk as ...
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