With your help, we can fund a pangolin mobile clinic to reach vulnerable animals in trouble fast. Please, donate NOW! |
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Dear friends,
Pangolins are the most trafficked mammal on the planet. Up to 2.7 million are relentlessly hunted from the wild each year for their meat, skin and scales. |
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Together with our partner, the Umoya Khulula Wildlife Centre, we are on the frontlines of the fight to help save pangolins. Every month, our team rescues and rehabilitates scores of sick and injured animals, including severely compromised pangolins, all confiscated from the insatiable illegal wildlife trade.
In seven years of saving animals, Umoya Khulula has never seen such a massive pangolin poaching epidemic. |
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Poachers do not care about the cruelty they inflict on shy, gentle, helpless animals who just want to be left alone. All they care about is money.
In scenes of utter horror, pangolins are hacked with shovels and machetes by poachers, stuffed into sacks, hidden in car engines and often starved for weeks on end. |
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Pangolins we help rescue are in horrific condition and often need immediate, life-saving medical care. |
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Our partner recently acquired a caravan trailer, which we want to transform into a fully-equipped mobile clinic to respond swiftly to pangolins in trouble. This will shorten the response time for saving and treating vulnerable pangolins in critical condition and will be a vital asset during the soft-release process.
Pangolins are easily stressed and suffer from travel sickness, making this mobile clinic their best hope of successful recovery after the trauma they have experienced.
Please, will you help them? |
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A pangolin mobile clinic will revolutionize the pangolin rescue, rehabilitation and release process by providing immediate, life-saving medical care upon their rescue and ensuring a smooth, stress-free release. |
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With the mobile clinic stocked and ready to go, our team can quickly respond and save pangolins following successful undercover sting operations. Additionally, pangolin caregivers will use the mobile clinic to remain on-site in reserves for the entire duration of the soft-release process, which involves a gradual and controlled reintroduction of rehabilitated wildlife back into their natural environment.
Releasing rehabilitated pangolins into fenced and patrolled wild spaces is vital for their survival.
During the soft-release process, caregivers walk pangolins daily to ensure successful foraging, monitor their weight gain, and provide medical and behavioral check-ups. Since pangolins can take a turn for the worse at any moment, our team needs all the necessary equipment and supplies on-site to treat them. |
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We MUST fight to save every pangolin life we can! If we can raise $16,000 (£12,500), we can provide a critically needed mobile clinic for pangolins in South Africa. Please, donate RIGHT NOW! |
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Your donation will cover all internal and external renovations, including setting up a pangolin and carer room, off-road tyres, solar power, air conditioning to help regulate body temperature, a portable X-ray machine and a fully stocked pangolin medical kit. |
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Saving animals and the planet,
 General Manager
Animal Survival International |
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P.S. Pangolins are being hunted to the brink of extinction. With poaching rapidly increasing, it is SO important that the rescued animals receive the care they need to survive and be released back into safe, wild spaces where they belong. Every contribution brings us one step closer to safeguarding these precious animals. Please, donate right now. |
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