Date: December 3, 2018
Source: Pensoft Publishers
Alarming
footage captured by World Animal Protection and the Wildlife Conservation
Research Unit (WildCRU) at University of Oxford reveals the heart-breaking
moment a pangolin is brutally killed for its body parts to be sold on the black
market in Assam, north-eastern India.
The
footage was captured by an undercover researcher on their mobile phone, and
shows a terrified pangolin hiding from hunters in a hollowed-out tree clinging
for life, as its tail is tugged. The hunters use axes to cut the tree, but
failing to remove the desperate animal, they light a fire to smoke it out. As
the pangolin starts to suffocate and lose consciousness it makes a bolt for
freedom but is captured, bagged and taken to a hut where the next stage of the
ordeal takes place. The pangolin is repeatedly bludgeoned with a machete until
it can barely move. While bleeding, it is then thrown into a cauldron of
boiling water possibly still alive, where its tragic struggle comes to an end.
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