Pangolins serve as natural pest controllers, consuming massive quantities of ants and termites, while their burrowing helps aerate soils. The Alliance for Pangolin Conservation-Ghana, a non ...

Ancient humans -- also called hominins -- such as the robust Australopithecus are known to have used fragments of bones to dig up tubers from termite mounds. Even today our closest living relative, ...

According to the Environmental Investigation Agency , an estimated 5 to 10 tonnes of pangolin scales are illegally exported each year from Ghana. Although national and international laws protect ...