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AndBeyond celebrates birth of first wild pangolin for decades

Luxury
April Hutchinson
27 January 2021

The first pangolin pup in decades has been born at AndBeyond’s Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. 

Pangolin populations are in rapid decline

The eight-week-old pup is an incredible result of an ambitious conservation project run by AndBeyond in conjunction with the African Pangolin Working Group (APWG), the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital and the Humane Society International (HSI) Africa. 

Launched in mid-2019, the initiative has seen the release of a number of pangolins retrieved from poachers or illegal wildlife traffickers across South Africa in operations undertaken by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the APWG at AndBeyond Phinda, but this is the first successful birth.