“Inside the Crate: What Officers Discovered Will Haunt Their Dreams!”
The workers had to cover their noses and breathe through their mouths to avoid gagging from the stench. It was almost too much to handle.
Safety First
Before the investigators could proceed any further, they needed to consider their own health and safety. So, they called in quarantine officers to supervise as they unpacked the rest of the bags. What they found left them feeling sick to their stomachs…
In the picture above you can see a bag of coal next to the contents of one of the other bags. It’s the brown stuff in the background that was giving off that horrible smell.
A Scaly Situation
Everyone was very confused by the contents of the bags, but after some careful investigation, the officers were able to reveal their findings to the public. They announced, “Our preliminary inspection determined they were pangolin scales.” In total, the bags contained 13.1 tons of pangolin scales.
If you want to find out more about what pangolin scales actually are, you have to continue on to the next page. Trust me, if you’ve never seen a pangolin, you are seriously missing out.
Wait, What Are They?
This wasn’t just a huge amount of scales; in fact, it was the largest bust of illegal pangolin byproducts ever made by Chinese officials. Specialists estimated that these scales had to come from a whopping 30,000 different pangolins. Investigators were desperate to catch the people responsible for this crime and to stop them before they could cause any further damage.
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