Pangolin poaching the brutal reality #Shorts #Short<br /><br />Text :<br />The pangolin hunt: the brutal reality.<br /><br />the moment when a pangolin was cut down for its scales in Assam, India. Pangolin scales are sold on the black market for traditional Asian medicine.<br /><br />This isn't just a major conservation issue – it's a devastating animal welfare issue.<br /><br />Terrible ordeal<br />A frightened pangolin hides from hunters in a hollow tree, surviving for its life as its tail is pulled.<br /><br />The hunters used axes to chop down the trees, but failing to get rid of the desperate animal, they lit a fire to get it out.<br /><br />As the pangolin began to suffocate and lose consciousness, the pangolin broke free but was captured, bagged, and taken to a hut where the next stage of the ordeal took place.<br /><br />Pangolins were repeatedly hit with machetes until they could barely move. While bleeding, he is then thrown into a cauldron of boiling water, where his tragic struggle ends.