RESEARCH REPORT PILLAGERS IN PARADISE - The trafficking dynamics of the Palawan pangolin

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RESEARCH REPORT PILLAGERS IN PARADISE - The trafficking dynamics of the Palawan pangolin

16 Nov 2022

To complement the findings of the fieldwork and desk research, the project called upon the experience of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s Market Monitoring and Friction Unit to determine the extent of the online trade in the Palawan pangolin and its parts within the Philippines. [...] Legal protections for the Palawan pangolin The Palawan pangolin has the most restricted range of the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora eight species,12 with evidence of distribution stretching (CITES) voted to transfer all eight pangolin species to from Busuanga Island in the north of Palawan to Balabac Appendix I of the convention (effective from 2017), in the south.13 The Palaw. [...] For this If a pangolin is killed in Palawan for the trade in scales, network, the collectors are informed via mobile phone it is unclear what happens to the animal’s meat, of the position of the fishing vessel but are not aware of although it is likely to be consumed by hunters or their the identities of the crew on board nor the destination relatives.45 If a pangolin is hunted for the live meat o. [...] Instead, the Despite the fishing boats having the appropriate middleman sends men hired to crew the fishing boat to paperwork to bring fish from Palawan to Batangas, no collect the pangolins and bring them to the dockside fish is loaded onto the boats for the journey as the where they are loaded onto the fishing boat. [...] The DENR operates at the national level, with jurisdiction over the whole of the country, except Palawan, where jurisdiction is held at the provincial level by the PCSD.102 The Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB), which is the CITES management authority for the Philippines, forms part of the wider DENR and is responsible for the management of protected areas and endangered species of flora and fa.
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