The following images that you are going to see They are of a rawness and a reality that will startle you. You are already warned, but it is important to become aware of where we are going as a species in this capitalist world and without reason that turns every living being, even us, into a currency for another same currency, or, a stone to the one who has given it a greater value than a person, just the one who writes here and the one who reads these lines, yourself.
Paul Hilton came to a clearing in Sumatra, Indonesia, last year, where he found a large hole, a couple of official forces, and an open pit just to be set ablaze, in what could be called a crime of nature. Was full of pangolins that were confiscated from a company that trades with this type of hunted animals because of how precious some of their parts are.
About 4.000 pangolins that the forces of order took from that company that trafficked with them, they were found piled up and frozen in that open pit that was going to be consumed by flames and fire.
Pangolins are very prized by traditional medicine and its meat is considered a delicacy in some parts of Vietnam and China. Like the rhino horn, the scales are made of keratin, the same material that we have in our nails and that is of appreciable medicinal value in various regions of the world.
The demand for this living being is putting the eight species found in Southeast Asia and Africa in danger of extinction due to poaching. More of 10.000 animals are estimated to be killed every year. Each kilogram of meat of this animal costs 600 dollars and the pangolins that appear in these photos are estimated to be worth 1,8 million dollars. 1 million dollars that indicate the value of something else that I let you name yourself. There it is.