Eaten to extinction: ”If you crossed an anteater with a carp, you might get something similar to a pangolin. Thai custom agents at a checkpoint in Chumporn seized 138 of the endangered animals hidden in a truck. Officials said they were being smuggled out of the country to be sold and eaten. In China, pangolin is a regarded as both a delicacy and the source of several purported “cures.” Often the animal suffers a slow, painful death before it’s boiled and its “medicinal” scales removed.”Photo: Apichart Weerawong / Associated Press
Great population growth comes horrific destruction. Maybe they can make a conservation zoo program, call it “education,” and charge a fee.
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