Photographic evidence of the Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata Geoffroy, 1803 (Mammalia: Pholidota: Manidae), in Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, Bihar, India

Authors

  • Mujahid Ahamad Department of Eco-Development Planning and Participatory Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttrakhand 248001, India.
  • Umar Saeed Department of Eco-Development Planning and Participatory Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttrakhand 248001, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6133-2469
  • Vivek Ranjan Department of Eco-Development Planning and Participatory Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttrakhand 248001, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3796-0828
  • Syed Ainul Hussain Department of Eco-Development Planning and Participatory Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttrakhand 248001, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3229-806X
  • Ruchi Badola Department of Eco-Development Planning and Participatory Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttrakhand 248001, India.
  • S. Kumarasamy Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department, QFHF+W2H, Office of Divisional Forest Officer, Purnea, Thana Chowk Road, near Head Post Office, PWD Colony, Purnia, Bihar 854301, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8248.15.5.23270-23272

Keywords:

Indian Pangolin, Endangered, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary

Abstract

Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) represents the world’s most trafficked and highly threatened species due to poaching and habitat destruction (Newton et al., 2008). In India, two species of Pangolin; the Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata), also called thick-tailed Pangolin and the Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), are distributed throughout the country except for the Trans-Himalayan region (Mahapatra et al., 2015). The species remains endangered by IUCN (Mahmood et al., 2019) and Appendix I in CITES. The species is protected as a Schedule I species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. 

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