Category: Updates

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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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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Malaysia’s top cop pledges to investigate officers involved in pangolin smuggling

MALAYSIA: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador will investigate reports on police officers being involved in smuggling activities. “Anyone – including security officers – who works with smuggling syndicates would have action taken against them. “I even welcome whipping as punishment, ” he said, reiterating an earlier statement to introduce the punishment as […]
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Our report on police officers’ role in wildlife smugglings triggers corruption probe

R.AGE’s expose on the involvement of Malaysian police in the smuggling of endangered pangolins has triggered an investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). “We have conducted undercover work and exposed corruption practices at our border (in the past), but we never looked into corruption in wildlife smuggling specifically,” said MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) […]
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