{"id":121,"date":"2019-12-12T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=121"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:51:20","slug":"malaysia-the-pangolin-and-the-dark-world-of-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: The Pangolin And The Dark World Of Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2019-12-11-at-08.25.59.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2019-12-11-at-08.25.59.webp 790w, https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2019-12-11-at-08.25.59-238x300.webp 238w, https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2019-12-11-at-08.25.59-768x968.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, our partners at R.AGE in Malaysia published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rage.com.my\/pangolin\/\">an incredible investigative storybook<\/a>&nbsp;on their reporting on the pangolin trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s how they describe the effort:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cOnce 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 stories that would not sit inside the neat black-and-white columns of news publication, so they just wrote stories and made them less about accuracy and more about truth, and kissed them with pretty paintings and hoped they would speak to everyone young and old.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result is just great.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rage.com.my\/pangolin\/\">Please give it a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https___bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_79aac96b-b71e-45b6-a479-5721b5164d1a_1194x778.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https___bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_79aac96b-b71e-45b6-a479-5721b5164d1a_1194x778.webp 1000w, https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https___bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_79aac96b-b71e-45b6-a479-5721b5164d1a_1194x778-300x196.webp 300w, https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https___bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_79aac96b-b71e-45b6-a479-5721b5164d1a_1194x778-768x501.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also published a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hh9w3fk9zZs&amp;feature=emb_title\">great short video explainer<\/a>. Please share these fantastic productions with interested friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re in Malaysia, consider buying The Star newspaper over the next days. Collect all six pages of their report from Dec. 10-14 to make a pangolin poster. If you do get all of them, snap a photo and tag them on Instagram&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thestar_rage\/\">@thestar_rage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigative.earth\/news\/tag\/Malaysia\">Malaysia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, our partners at R.AGE in Malaysia published&nbsp;an incredible investigative storybook&nbsp;on their reporting on the pangolin trade. Here\u2019s how they describe the effort: \u201cOnce 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. 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