The African Pangolin Working Group strives for the conservation and protection of all four African pangolin species through the rehabilitation and rewilding of illegally traded pangolins, by generating knowledge, developing partnerships and creating public awareness and education initiatives.

Key to this is the Pangolarium in South Africa: a purpose-built pangolin veterinary treatment, care and rehabilitation facility for Temminck’s pangolin.

The SAWC aims to equip people with the necessary knowledge and applied skills to conserve and protect Africa’s natural resources and its biodiversity in viable, inclusive and economically successful ways.

We are particularly enamoured by the work they are doing with their K9-unit, where they are using dogs – both on-leash with handlers and off-leash as free running packs – which has proved to be a game changer as part of the anti-poaching toolkit and continues to be incredibly effective in helping to combat wildlife crime. 

Working with dogs is our passion - Using our knowledge of the bush and devoting our lives to conservation using our dogs.

"We believe in working together and that there should be no competition or "trade secrets" if we want to be successful in counter-poaching as well as curbing crime like drug dealing, hijackings, cash-in-transit heists, kidnappings etc."