All five episodes of A Pangolin’s Tale are now available to watch!

Join WildAid Ambassador Djimon Hounsou on an epic adventure to learn about the many threats pangolins face around the world. Accompanied by our WildAid crew, Djimon investigates wildlife markets, visits a local wildlife vet, meets with a local pangolin conservationist, and learns about the pangolin crisis from a wildlife rehabilitation specialist.

Watch the mini documentary series to learn more about the world’s most trafficked wild mammal.

Djimon begins his journey in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, first venturing on a safari to learn about the wildlife, and later joined by biologist Wendy Panaino on a nighttime pangolin tracking expedition.

Djimon travels to Nigeria, where he meets veterinarian and wildlife advocate Mark Ofua. Together they investigate the rising demand for illegal bushmeat. 

Djimon and Mark rescue a group of pangolins from a wildlife market outside Lagos, Nigeria. Back at Mark's clinic, they rehabilitate the pangolins in order to release them at a protected nature reserve. 

Overnight Mark receives a surprise – an abandoned baby pangolin whose mother was captured by poachers. Djimon visits baby Juba at Mark's clinic, and it becomes clear that the grave situation of pangolins is more urgent than ever.  

Djimon Hounsou is a two-time Academy Award-nominated actor for his work in Ed Zwick’s Blood Diamond and Jim Sheridan’s In America. Born in Benin, West Africa, Hounsou moved to Paris at the age of 13 to pursue a Western education. As an adult, he was discovered by designer Thierry Mugler and subsequently modeled for and appeared in several iconic music videos for Herb Ritts and David Fincher.

Through Fanaticus, his production company devoted to promoting the stories of Africa, Hounsou recently directed the documentary In Search of Voodoo.