A truck near the Burmese-Chinese border. Credit: Patrick Boehler 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…
We released our global investigative report to 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.…
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…