Category: Announcements

Announcing the ERC Training Grants

NOTE: GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED FOR 2023 The Environmental Reporting Collective are offering training grants for journalists and newsrooms to organise self-tailored training programmes for themselves, but which are also open to other ERC partner newsrooms and journalists. Grantees will organise the training themselves, with assistance from the ERC Core Team. We’re offering three grants […]

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Call for Applications: ERC Collaborative Reporting Grants

Applications for our Collaborative Reporting Grants are now open. The deadline is August 15th, 2023. The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) is now again accepting applications for its Collaborative Reporting Grants to support journalists working together on tracing environmental crimes across borders. In 2022, ERC supported nine teams of reporters working from more than a dozen […]

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Announcing Oceans Inc, our latest cross-border investigative collaboration

We’re pleased to announce the publication of the first story in our latest collaborative cross-border investigation, Oceans Inc.

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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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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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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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Malaysia: The Pangolin And The Dark World Of Trafficking

Today, our partners at R.AGE in Malaysia published an incredible investigative storybook on their reporting on the pangolin trade. Here’s how they describe the effort: “Once 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 […]

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