Pangolin

Chinese researchers: pangolins may host coronavirus

Scientists say virus may have spread from bats to humans through the threatened mammals, but others...

Published on Feb 8, 2020

A pangolin at the Endemic Species Research Institute’s (ESRI) Animal First-aid Station in Taiwan. (Photo Credit: Yu Chih Wei/ The Reporter)

Across Myanmar, pangolins are trafficked in plain sight

Despite laws protecting pangolins, an investigation at major trade hubs found consumption and trade of the nearly extinct animal to be pervasive and brazen.

Dec 27, 2019

About Myanmar NOW

Myanmar Now is an independent news service providing free, accurate and unbiased news to the people of Myanmar in Burmese and English.

Donate

Independent media is under attack in Myanmar... help us hold the powerful to account.

Donate Now

Contact Us

No 253/285, Room (A), 12th Floor, Great Cairo Condo
Konzaydan Street,
Pabedan Township, Yangon, Myanmar

Search form

Pangolin

NEWSLETTER

About Myanmar NOW

Donate

Contact Us

independent-media.png

The military regime is targeting Myanmar's journalists...