Ten things we learned from coordinating this global reporting project
Editors and ERC co-founders Patrick Böhler and Ying Chan detail how The Pangolin Reports collaboration initially began or the Global Investigative Journalism Network, and point out lessons learned throughout the year of reporting on pangolin trafficking. Read the full article here.
How we embraced Creative Commons licenses to amplify our reach
Our managing editor, Patrick Böhler recently spoke about how our reporting in The Pangolin Reports used Creative Commons licensing to increase public access and leverage local journalistic expertise. Read the full exchange here.
The Pangolin Reports turn into podcast productions in English and Chinese
Today, we’re extremely proud to share episode one of Sustainable Asia’s podcast series on the Pangolin Reports. Executive producer Marcy Trent Long and her team worked with our reporters Xu Jiaming and Tin Htet Paing as they retraced pangolin smuggling routes in Myanmar. Listen to the first episode on their site, Pocket Casts, Spotify, iTunes, or on your favourite podcast platform. […]
Could pangolins be a piece of the coronavirus puzzle?
Researchers in Guangzhou said pangolins are a possible “intermediate host” of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 630 people in China. We’re looking into their findings and will share more detailed information as soon as possible. Read here our report at Myanmar Now, and the South China Morning Post’s report. Here’s our report in Chinese at […]
We looked into a Chinese pangolin smuggling syndicate. Here’s what we found
Our colleagues Karen Zhang and Xu Jiaming published their investigation into a Chinese wildlife smuggling syndicate. According to court documents in mainland China, the group smuggled at least three shipments of more than four tonnes of pangolin scales worth 3.8 million yuan (US$547,500) from Nigeria to China, with the cargo going through South Korea and […]
The Pangolin Reports have been translated into Burmese, Flemish and Bahasa Indonesia
We released our global investigative reportto the public domain under the Creative Commons’ BY-NC-ND license, making translating and republishing the report simple and free. This has led to some great translations that helped us spread the reach of our reporting. In Myanmar, our colleagues at Myanmar Now translated our investigation into Burmese. But they didn’t stop there. They shared the report […]
Pangolins are trafficked in plain sight across Myanmar
Our Chinese reporter, Xu Jiaming, teamed up with Tin Htet Paing, a senior reporter at Myanmar Now, to visit markets, restaurants and shops in major trade hubs across the country, feigning interest in buying pangolins. They found consumption and trade of the nearly extinct animal to be more pervasive and more brazen than we had expected […]
Here’s how pangolin hunting is happening under officials’ watch in the Philippines
Our colleagues at Rappler in the Philippines released their two-part series this week on poaching in Palawan. We strongly encourage you to read their work. It was the product of weeks of painstaking reporting. Its two parts look at two dilemmas: Part 1: How local politicians can’t clamp down on poaching because they’d risk losing the support […]
Malaysia: The Pangolin And The Dark World Of Trafficking
Today, our partners at R.AGE in Malaysia published an incredible investigative storybook on their reporting on the pangolin trade. Here’s how they describe the effort: “Once there was a group of journalists who set out to expose the illicit pangolin trade in Malaysia with hard-hitting videos and sharp news copy. But they returned with a collection of […]
Malaysia’s top cop pledges to investigate officers involved in pangolin smuggling
MALAYSIA: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador will investigate reports on police officers being involved in smuggling activities. “Anyone – including security officers – who works with smuggling syndicates would have action taken against them. “I even welcome whipping as punishment, ” he said, reiterating an earlier statement to introduce the punishment as […]
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