{"id":154,"date":"2020-05-05T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:20:48","slug":"chinese-courts-treat-pangolin-offenders-lightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Chinese courts treat pangolin offenders lightly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A data investigation by #WildEye Asia exposes lenient punishments for pangolin offences in China. Such sentences are unlikely to deter illegal trade. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1z1iMXlTzX0ooIXVUKZslH9AVUnl4m1BzdW-X3D0alAQ\/edit#gid=0\">Data collated by #WildEye Asia<\/a>&nbsp;shows that, of the 34 criminals convicted of pangolin-related crimes since late 2019, close to half were given suspended sentences of less than a year. This meant they did not serve a prison term, though in all cases they received a fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxpeckers.org\/2020\/05\/chinese-court-cases\/\">Read the full report<\/a> by our colleague Bao Choy on the site of the Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism. This investigation was sponsored by Internews\u2019 Earth Journalism Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A data investigation by #WildEye Asia exposes lenient punishments for pangolin offences in China. Such sentences are unlikely to deter illegal trade. Data collated by #WildEye Asia&nbsp;shows that, of the 34 criminals convicted of pangolin-related crimes since late 2019, close to half were given suspended sentences of less than a year. This meant they did [&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-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}