Across Asia, we looked for data sources on the pangolin trade. Here’s what we found.

Did we miss anything? Let us know: contact@investigative.earth

Global

  1. CITES Trade Database

    • Patterns and features

    • Database Documentation

    • Description: report records of import/export of pangolins by countries (non-transactional record)

    • Major Fields: Year, Taxon, Importer, Exporter, Origin, Imp Quantity, Imp Unit, Imp Term, Imp Purpose, Imp Source, Reporter Type

    • Data Subset of Manidae - data download

    • Size: 20 million+ records (full dataset)

    • Range: 1975 onwards

    • Format: CSV

    • Source: NGO

    • Remarks: Error data not marching headers are spliced out. Error Data and Locations can be viewed on this notebook (spliced out data do not concern Manidae but other species)

    • Status: Exploratory analysis. Karen filed the request, 2018 data not available until October at earliest.

    • TODO

      • calculate scales(kg) to individual number (scale to weight ratio of different species) (paul savepangolins.org)

  2. Environmental Investigation Agency

    • Carto link

    • Description: a subset seizure incidents from 2000 to 2018, compiled from publicly available records and represents only a fraction of actual trade during that period

    • Major Fields: Location, Volume(Est.) (no raw data publicly available)

    • Size: N/A

    • Range: 2000 - 2018

    • Format: Plot Map Visual

    • Source: Environmental Investigation Agency (NGO)

  3. Traffic reports on pangolins

    • Format: PDF

China

  1. Data findings

  2. China Judgements Online Database

    • Repo

    • Description: GUI courtcase search website tool

    • Major Fields: N/A

    • Size: 109 - 117 (search results vary)

    • Range: N/A

    • Format: Judgement text

    • Source: Judicial

    • Supplementary:

  3. HKU Paper on Pangolin Seizures in China

    • Research data download

    • Description: We summarize pangolin seizure data reported in public media from 2008 to 2016, incorporating often neglected small seizures reported in Chinese.

    • Major Fields: year, province, city, amount, unit(kg/ind/piece), status(scale/alive/meat), equal individual, source country, from, to, stop, custom or not, form, species, media source

    • Size: 207 records

    • Range: media reports from 2008 - 2016

    • Format: Excel

    • Source: Academic (media reports, court verdicts, CITES…)

  4. Pangolin ingredient in Chinese Medicine

    • Description: Stats of hospitals using medicine with pangolin ingredients, 209 medicine companies, 78 kinds of medicine, 715 hospital

    • Major Field: Province, Hospitals Using Medicine with pangolin ingredient, Medicine name, Permit ID, Production Companies

    • Size: 314 medicine-medcine_company records(Normalised)

    • Timestamp: 2016

    • Format: csv

    • Source: China Food and Drug Administration

    • Remarks: shared by Jiaming

  5. Government stock (TK)

  6. Pangolin related Company

    • Description: Qixin.com pangolin keyword search

    • Major Fields: Company Name, ID, Province, City, Legal Representative, Registered Capital, Founder Date, Business, Tel, Address, Email, website

    • Size: 120 companies

    • Timestamp: 01-06-2019

    • Format: Excel (Normalised)

    • Source: Qixin open data

Hong Kong

  1. Hong Kong Customs Press Release data download

    • Repo

    • Description: Text data on HK Customs press release

    • Major Fields: Year, Month, Date, Title, Url, Article

    • Size: 2352 records (all press release)

    • Range: 2004 - 2018

    • Format: TSV/Excel/Spreadsheet

    • Source: Government (self scraped & curated database)

  2. Hong Kong Seizure Data by Karen

    • Description: Summarized from HK Customs data

    • Major Fields: Date of seizure, Contraband, Quantity (kg), Other contraband, Where found, Seizure region, Smuggled from, Destination, By, More info about the contraband, Any arrest?, Worth (HK dollars), Others, Notes

    • Size: 30 records

    • Timestamp: 2012 - 2019

    • Format: Excel

    • Source: Summarized from HK Customs data

Taiwan

  1. Taiwan court case

    • data

    • Description: Court case results by keyword search ‘穿山甲’

    • Major Fields: Cause of Action, Court Info, Date, Url

    • Size: 104 (including unrelated cases)

    • Range: 1997 - 2019

    • Format: Excel

    • Source: Taiwan Judicial

Malaysia

  1. Pangolin Seizure in Malaysia

    • data

    • Description: Pangolin seizure cases summarised from media reports

    • Major Fields: Date, Amount (Live), Amount (Frozen), Amount (Scales), Amount (Parts), Agg number of panglins, Form/Term, Location, Origin, Destination, Person, Offense, Status, Link, Notes

    • Size: 30

    • Range: 2011 - 2019

    • Format: Excel/Spreadsheet

    • Source: Media Reports

Nepal

  1. Central Investigation Bureau, Nepal Police

    • data download

    • Description: summary of pangolin operation data since 2012

    • Major Fields: N/A

    • Size: N/A

    • Range: Since 2012

    • Format: Summary data

    • Source: government

Vietnam

  1. USAID - Buyer Profile

    • buyer demographics

    • need research on the comprehensive survey

    • from vietnam country report