{"id":125,"date":"2019-12-21T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=125"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:53:01","slug":"heres-how-pangolin-hunting-is-happening-under-officials-watch-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how pangolin hunting is happening under officials\u2019 watch in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/philippine-pangolins-december-9-2019-003.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/philippine-pangolins-december-9-2019-003.webp 1000w, https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/philippine-pangolins-december-9-2019-003-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/investigative.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/philippine-pangolins-december-9-2019-003-768x576.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our colleagues at Rappler&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its two parts look at two dilemmas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/science-nature\/environment\/246593-pangolin-hunting-under-local-officials-watch-philippine-village-part-1\"><strong>Part 1<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;How local politicians can\u2019t clamp down on poaching because they\u2019d risk losing the support of their communities: \u201cIf you report them to authorities and they belong to a big family, expect [that] you can\u2019t have their votes come elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/science-nature\/environment\/246825-philippine-government-stopping-pangolin-trade-challenging-part-2\"><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;How economic growth plans are at odds with wildlife preservation: \u201cWe are not able to integrate wildlife conservation into our overall development plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigative.earth\/news\/tag\/Philippines\">Philippines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues at Rappler&nbsp;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:&nbsp;How local politicians can\u2019t clamp down on poaching because they\u2019d risk losing the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}