South Asia Conservation Plan for Pangolins - Survey [Action Required]

[Kumar Paudel]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the South Asia Conservation Plan for Pangolins (SACPP) survey 2025 (https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/N7EoUK) by July 31, 2025. As an important pangolin stakeholder, any information that you provide will be a critical foundation for the development of more adaptive and integrated pangolin conservation policy and practice across all of South Asia.

The SACPP survey aims to collect a diversity of information on South Asia’s pangolins, including their population health and distribution, threats that they are facing throughout their range, research and protection efforts for their conservation, their sociocultural importance, and other aspects of their management throughout the region. In order to guarantee that we are collecting all of the best available information on these topics from as many researchers, practitioners, and other pangolin-related stakeholders as possible, we would greatly appreciate it if you could share this e-mail invitation and the linked SACPP survey with your networks and anyone that you know who may be able to contribute useful data to this expert elicitation.

More details about the SACPP survey are below and reviewed on the introductory page of the survey itself. If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to request more time to complete the survey, please contact me (ku...@greenhood.org and/or Dr. Vikram Aditya (vikram...@cwsindia.org).

Thank you very much for your support of this initiative and for all of the outstanding work that you do to safeguard South Asia’s pangolins, ecosystems, and communities! Your completion of this survey and generous collaboration in the SACPP serves to further magnify your commendable efforts, and we cannot thank you enough for sharing your time and expertise.

Thank you and best regards,

Kumar Paudel

Regional Co-Chair - South Asia
IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group

Additional Survey Details:

Average Duration: Approximately 40 minutes.

Confidentiality: Your responses will be kept confidential and used only for the advancement of pangolin conservation. Ethical permission for this survey was granted by the Safeguard Policy and Ethics Committee of Greenhood Nepal.

Sensitive Data: Any sharing of legal or law enforcement-related information will only be considered for informational purposes and not to bring legal or administrative action to bear. Sensitive distribution and location data will not be publicly shared.

Outputs: Insights from the survey will be used to: 1. support a pangolin conservation planning workshop and the formulation of a comprehensive conservation action plan (more information to be shared soon), and 2. contribute to possible peer-reviewed publications on the topic of pangolin conservation in South Asia.