A collective statement in support of saving pangolins

Choo SW 1 , Chong JL 2 , Gaubert P 3 , Hughes AC 4 , O'Brien S 5 , Chaber AL 6 Show all authors , Antunes A 7 , Platto S 8 , Sun NC 9 , Yu L 10 , Koepfli KP 11 , Suwal TL 12 , Thakur M 13 , Ntie S 14 , Panjang E 15 , Kumaran JV 16 , Mahmood T 17 , Heighton SP 3 , Dorji D 18 , Gonedelé BS 19 , Nelson BR 20 , Djagoun CAMS 21 , Loh IH 22 , Kaspal P 23 , Pauklin S 24 , Michelena T 25 , Zhu H 26 , Lipovich L 27 , Tian X 28 , Deng S 29 , Mason CE 30 , Hu J 10 , White R 31 , Jakubovics NS 32 , Wee WY 33 , Tan TK 34 , Wong KT 35 , Paterson S 36 , Chen M 37 , Zhang Y 38 , Othman RY 39 , Brown LC 25 , Shen B 40 , Shui G 41 , Ang MY 42 , Zhao Y 25 , Li Y 43 , Zhang B 28 , Chong CT 44 , Meng Y 25 , Wong A 45 , Su J 46 , Omar H 47 , Shen H 25 , Tan CH 48 , Xu H 25 , Paterson IC 49 , Wang M 50 , Chan CK 25 , Zhang S 51 , Dutta A 52 , Tee TS 53 , Juvigny-Khenafou NPD 54 , Mutha NVR 55 , Aziz MA 56

Affiliations 

  • 1 College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China; Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Centre, Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: cwoh@wku.edu.cn
  • 2 Faculty of Science & Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia; IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, C/O Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK. Electronic address: julian@umt.edu.my
  • 3 Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, IRD/CNRS/UPS, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Bât. 4R1, 31062 Toulouse, France
  • 4 Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), Empark International Apartment, No. 69, Banding Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
  • 5 Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Center for Computer Technologies, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia; Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33004, USA
  • 6 School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Roseworthy campus, University of Adelaide, 5371 Roseworthy, South Australia, Australia
  • 7 CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos, s/n, 4450-208 Porto, Portugal; Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
  • 8 Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
  • 9 Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
  • 10 State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
  • 11 Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Center for Computer Technologies, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia; Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA
  • 12 Small Mammal Conservation and Research Foundation, Balkhu Bandhudatta Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • 13 Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India
  • 14 Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (LABMC), Département de Biologie, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku (USTM), BP 941 Franceville, Gabon
  • 15 IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, C/O Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK; Danau Girang Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia; School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK
  • 16 Global Entrepreneurship Research and Innovation Center (GERIC), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Locked bag 36, Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan, Malaysia; Faculty of Earth Science, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, UMK Jeli Campus, Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia
  • 17 IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, C/O Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK; Department of Wildlife Management, PMAS Arid Agricultural University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
  • 18 Division Forest Office, Sarpang Department of Forests and Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan
  • 19 Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Valorization of Biological Resources, UFR Biosciences, University Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
  • 20 Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
  • 21 Laboratory of Applied Ecology, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin
  • 22 School of Business and Management, RMIT University Vietnam, Handi Resco Building, 521 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Viet Nam
  • 23 Women for Conservation & Bhaktapur Multiple Campus, Nepal
  • 24 Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Old Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK
  • 25 College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China
  • 26 Bossco Institute of Ecological Environment, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
  • 27 Department of Basic Sciences, College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • 28 College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China; Wenzhou Municipal Key Laboratory for Applied Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Informatics, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
  • 29 Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK
  • 30 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1305 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, USA
  • 31 Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK
  • 32 School of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Framlington Place, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4BW, UK
  • 33 School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
  • 34 Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 117599, Singapore
  • 35 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 36 Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
  • 37 Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China; Institute of Hematology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • 38 Research Center of Landscape Protection & Ecological Restoration, China-Portugal Belt and Road Cooperation Laboratory of Cultural Heritage Conservation Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
  • 39 Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 40 Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Xinchuan Road 2222, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
  • 41 State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • 42 Department of Clinical Genome Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 43 Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, Wirral CH64 7TE, UK
  • 44 China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Lingang, Shanghai 201306, China
  • 45 College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China; Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Centre, Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
  • 46 Institute of Biomedical Big Data, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
  • 47 Museum of Zoology (Block J14), Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 48 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 49 Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 50 Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, China
  • 51 Pangolin Working Group, Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), Empark International Apartment, No. 69, Banding Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
  • 52 Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Estonia
  • 53 Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 54 Quantitative Landscape Ecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University Koblenz-Landau, Fortstrasse 7, 76829 Landau in der Pfalz, Germany
  • 55 Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
  • 56 Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sci Total Environ, 2022 Feb 14.
PMID: 35176378 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153666

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