Undercover journalists from The Star’s award-winning R.AGE team recently rescued two critically endangered pangolins, while exposing local wildlife trafficking networks which are driving precious species into extinction.
The world’s most trafficked mammal is a solitary anteater resembling an artichoke: the pangolin. Prized for its scales, particularly for traditional medicine in China, this quiet animal is at the centre of a sophisticated, ...
A global investigative report has alleged that as many as a dozen Malaysian policemen are playing a key part in the international smuggling trade for pangolins, the endangered species widely considered the world’s most ...
The world’s most trafficked mammal is a solitary anteater resembling an artichoke: the pangolin. Prized for its scales, particularly for traditional Chinese medicines, this quiet animal is at the centre of a ...
The result of a nine-month investigation by more than 30 journalists around the world, The Pangolin Reports is a series of investigative reports that document the poaching and smuggling of pangolins, the scaly anteaters that ...
Reporters follow illegal trade from West African bushmeat markets, to middlemen in Asia, and finally to mainland China. Investigations found astounding profit margins: Scales bought for US$5 per kilogram in Nigeria can be ...
Two-thirds of people in a recent survey by the University of Hong Kong and WildAid were against the use of pangolins in traditional Chinese medicine. 85 per cent agreed that TCM should phase out the use of endangered species ...