World’s first radio-tagged Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)

Our team has successfully rehabilitated Indian pangolins in the wild. This is the first-ever case of successful rehabilitation effort of this species where the released individuals are monitored in the wild using telemetry. In anti-poaching operations where pangolin scales are recovered, those animals are already dead. Where live pangolins are involved, globally there is about 50 % death-rate among released pangolins. Given that several pangolins are rescued in the central Indian landscape, this new initiative by Madhya Pradesh Forest Department and WCT is to ensure better survival rates of these released individuals in the wild and thus have a positive impact on the population of this endangered species