Author: ERC Core Team

Chinese courts treat pangolin offenders lightly

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 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 […]
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A plea: ‘Open up the borders (for journalism)!’

Op-ed by Gie Goris and Jago Kosolosky, current and future editor-in-chief of MO*, Belgium. Late last year, MO* under the leadership of Gie published The Pangolin Reports in Flemish. On Aug. 1, 2020, Jago will take over the helm from Gie as editor-in-chief of MO* magazine and the news site. This op-ed first appeared on […]
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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.
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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.
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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