It was an emotional moment and a major sense of relief for several forest officials on Sunday, watching a few months old baby pangolin holding on tight to its mother's tail as they were released into their natural habitat. Had it not been for the combined efforts of the staff from Yeoor range, Thane territorial and Sudhagadh range — both the mother and baby would have been poached for their meat and scales. An operation that began with a tip-off and ran for about 10 days ended up with eight people including a woman being arrested for trafficking and trying to sell a live pair of a mother and baby pangolin. The arrests were made on Saturday by Sudhagadh range forest officials and all the accused have been booked under different sections of Wildlife Protection Act 1972. "Photographs of the baby pangolin moved me so much that I resolved to try and do everything to save them.

Source: dna May 07, 2019 00:33 UTC