WORLD WORLDWIDE ANIMALS NIGERIA Pangolins News Journal Update - 15 infant pangolins ripped from their mothers urgently need your help to survive!

 

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Saved from the horrors of the Nigerian wildlife trade, these weak, helpless PANGOPUPS DESPERATELY NEED SPECIAL MILK TO SURVIVE. Please, help us rush milk to them NOW! Please help by making a donation now! Share Tweet Forward Dear friends,  A little while ago, we appealed to you for help in purchasing critically-needed milk formula for eight infant pangolins in Nigeria. Today, we really need your help once again. Our partner in Nigeria, Pangolins International, has 15 fragile pangopups all rescued from the horrific illegal trade. They must have special milk formula to survive - please, will you help us save their lives? Credit: Taylor Weidman/Getty Images Pangolins are relentlessly poached from the wild because they are eaten as a delicacy in Asian countries, including Vietnam and China, and their scales are used in baseless ‘traditional’ medicines. Often they are strung up, alive, in illegal meat markets and advertised for purchase.  Juvenile pangolins - known as pangopups - are generally of no “use”, so they are ripped from their mothers and discarded, either in the wild or quite literally in rubbish bins. They will be at most a few months old - and have no chance of survival without help. Our partner, Pangolins International (PI), helps to rescue, rehabilitate and release into safe, protected areas. They urgently need our help right now because pangolins are so endangered that every life saved will lessen the chance of extinction. Credit: Monga Bay News Pangolins are the most trafficked animal in the world. The illegal wildlife trade is annihilating their populations. ALL species are highly endangered and at least three are thought to be critically endangered.  We cannot watch another wild animal go extinct - please, help now! Please help by making a donation now! Credit: Pangolins International and Nigerian Partners With our help, PI and its partners have been caring for eight young pangolins, now they need our help with an additional seven. These 15 rescued, traumatized pangolins, between five and nine months of age, need a special milk formula to survive. It is the closest substitute to their mothers’ milk and is the only nutrition that can help ensure their survival. Pangolins are believed to stay with their mothers for anything from four to eight months. Pangolin scales are used in useless traditional Chinese medicines. Credit: Dan Challender You already helped us feed and nurture the first eight. Will you please help us rush urgently-needed milk formula to the additional seven pups? Please help by making a donation now! Every pangolin life lost is accelerating the species towards extinction. Some species are already at risk of going extinct in as little as ten years. The 15 pangopups urgently need our ongoing support, and the specialized milk is critical to their survival - it can be the difference between life and death. Credit: Pangolins International and Nigerian Partners Pangolins are extremely sensitive creatures, notorious for being difficult to care for and keep alive outside their natural environments. Many of the pangolins rescued by PI and its partners are either injured, malnourished or dehydrated, and they can easily succumb to the effects of stress and trauma if they do not receive expert care and regular monitoring with a carefully planned feeding schedule.  Credit: Pangolins International and Nigerian Partners PI also cares for other injured, orphaned mammals caught in snares - barbaric traps laid out to catch ‘anything that moves’ - including genets (catlike carnivores), civets (small, mostly nocturnal mammals), monkeys, and pottos (nocturnal tree-dwelling primates). All of these rescued creatures rely on the same milk formula to survive, grow strong, and ultimately be released into protected reserves. Credit: Pangolins International and Nigerian Partners If we can raise $6,000 (roughly £4,700), we can keep feeding the pangolins and other small mammals and, the more we raise, the longer we can support their recovery. Please help by making a donation now! So please, donate as much as you possibly can right now, and help us give hope to a species under terrible pressure from poaching. Together, we have the power to make a difference. Saving animals and the planet,   Campaign Director Animal Survival International P.S. Pangolins need your help once more. Donate right now and help these creatures have a chance of survival. Once they are strong and healthy, they will be released into protected reserves. We MUST give hope to a species being hunted to the brink of extinction. Please donate now! Please help by making a donation now! Banner Credit: Pangolins International and Nigerian Partners

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