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Developing an ecology-based conservation strategy for the Indian Pangolin

Contributing IUCN constituents:Wildlife Conservation Trust

Project Details

NameDeveloping an ecology-based conservation strategy for the Indian Pangolin
DescriptionThrough this project, WCT aims to understand the ecology of the elusive and endangered Indian pangolin and develop an effective rehabilitation plan for the rescued/confiscated individuals to ensure better survival rates in the wild. WCT, in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department (MPFD), started this unique field project in 2019. The project focuses on increasing the rate of successful rehabilitation of seized pangolins, and involves collecting spatial, ecological, and behavioural data from the radio-tagged wild and rehabilitated pangolins, as well as mapping pangolin occurrence using trained detection dogs. WCT and MPFD have radio-tagged and released several rescued, confiscated and wild caught Indian pangolins, in Satpura and Pench tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh. They are being continuously monitored in the wild with the help of radio-telemetry. The camera trap data has been providing us with some very rare insight into the breeding, rearing, and parental behaviours of the Indian pangolin. Some of the rescued and radio-tagged individuals have also begun to breed in the wild. This is highly encouraging as successful breeding of rehabilitated individuals will have a positive impact on the population.
Contributing IUCN ConstituentWildlife Conservation Trust
Start Date3/31/2019
End Date12/30/2029
Conservation Actions1.2 Resource & Habitat Protection3.2 Species Recovery4.3 Awareness & Communications
Needed annual budget-
Total annual budget-
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Beneficiaries♀ - | ♂ -
Released Radio Tagged Pangolin Released Enters a Burrow
Wct Research Team Monitoring Released Pangolin in the Field During Monsoon
Pangolin Shifted to the Release Site in Specially Designed Transportation Box
Wct’s Field Biologists in the Process of Radio Tagging a Pangolin (2)
Tagged Pangolins With a Baby on Their Back
Moya Indicating Pangolin Burrow
Wct’s Field Biologists in the Process of Radio Tagging a Pangolin
Indian Pangolin Project Poster

Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions

Absolute value (STAR)

54

0.1% of the total biodiversity conservation potential of India is covered by this project.

41,171.4

13.3% of Asia's biodiversity conservation potential is from India.

309,761.9

25.9% of global biodiversity conservation potential is from Asia.

This stacked bar chart represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.

% Contribution of threats to species extinction

1.27%
7.3 Other ecosystem modifications
1.32%
5.3 Logging & wood harvesting
4.26%
2.3 Livestock farming & ranching
4.26%
2.2 Wood & pulp plantations
6.20%
2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops
6.31%
5.1 Hunting & collecting terrestrial animals
8.26%
9.3 Agricultural & forestry effluents
30.96%
3.2 Mining & quarrying
31.51%
6.3 Work & other activities

Threat type