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Climate Change Threats To Heritage Sites

2020 has been one of the most challenging years since time immemorial. While news of effective vaccines has made the headlines these past few weeks, the journey to eradicate the COVID-19 virus is far from over. The novel coronavirus has infected over 68.5 million people around the world to date. It has not only taken over a million lives in the past year, but it has also severely affected livelihoods and the economy in general.

9 December 2020
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Pangolin Scales Trade In ASEAN

It was reported that nearly 900,000 pangolins are believed to have been trafficked across Southeast Asia in the last 20 years. As the world is currently battling the coronavirus pandemic which some experts claim may have been passed on to humans from pangolins; conservationists are calling for a global ban on wildlife trading. This includes the illicit poaching and trade of the little-known creature.Pangolins are said to be the most widely trafficked mammal in the world.

18 April 2020
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ASEAN’s pangolin disaster

Unprecedented seizures of pangolin scales in Singapore last month – when the island-state seized a world record 25.6 tonnes in five days – is drawing more attention to the trade of the little-known creature.Said to be the most widely trafficked mammal in the world, all eight pangolin species – which are native to Asia and Africa – are now categorised as “vulnerable”, “endangered” or “critically endangered” according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Enda

2 May 2019
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Dolphin-enabled livelihood on the Ayeyarwady

On a stretch of the Ayeyarwady river, also known as the Irrawaddy river, near Myanmar’s Mandalay, fishermen from six villages work hand-in-fin with 26 Irrawaddy dolphins in a unique collaboration. Taught to do so since childhood, the fishermen cooperatively fish the river with the assistance of the dolphins. The tradition, origin unknown, is said to have been in practice since the 1860s.

2 October 2018
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