Zoo backs pangolin conservation programme amid poaching threat

Published date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:51:49 +0700

Conservationists are supporting a scheme to protect pangolins amid threats from poachers who use them for medicines.

Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, said it is marking World Pangolin Day on February 17 by backing a conservation project by the Pangolin Conservation & Research Foundation (PCRF) in Namibia in Southern Africa.