Inside Malaysia's Gruesome Snake Skin Trade
Economy of Scales: The illegal trade that's hastening the extinction of the python. Subscribe to Journeyman for daily current affairs and science reports: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/67962/short-films/economy-of-scales.html For over forty years Malaysia's forests supplied python skin to major Euro fashion brands in a trade worth billions of dollars. But that was before a 2004 EU ban forced Malaysia's snake hunters underground. Pandian and his cousin Ganesan have been professional Python hunters for over 15 years, but they increasingly face a battle to make a living. "Before, we could catch ten a day", Pandian explains. "Now we just get one or two". Fears of extinction lead to the EU ban on Malaysian python skins. But it's proved ineffective and contraband skins still find their way to Europe. According to a CITES official, "they've simply re-routed the trade from Singapore". There might yet be alternatives to hunting and a few enterprising Malaysians have opened up pioneering farms to save both the trade and the wild species. But is it too little too late for the python? Wild Angle - Ref 6309 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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The guy that says chicken eating and Python killing is the same no it's not the same chickens we controlled of them from extinction Python it's hard to know
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This why Indians are so fucked up why can't we just find jobs for them
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I think the farm at the very end of the video might just be the solution. The problem is, even if you ban the wildcaught snakes and allow the bred ones, people will find ways to label wildcaught snales are bred ones from farms, unfortunately.
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these ugly motherfuckers just breed like a rat, and will soon wipe out their entire habitats....India and china are over 3 BILLION..wtf
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this is so sad stop hunting snakes they are just doing their job . if you get bit or die because of a snake that's your fault.
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who would win, megaldon or a titanaboa?
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fuck snakes. and fuck you too.
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all famaly..
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i eat snake ... 16 feet phyton .. done i 1 week.. mostly the huge .can found outskirt .or private plantation
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We have a lot of snakes skin before my father burn it, my father used to catch the snakes because its attacking our chicken at night specialy on rainy stormy night
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i heard tagalog language.... weird..
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The only good snake is a dead one
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how is the capture and execution of lizards any less cruel than the execution of cows and pigs, animals that are actually semi-sentient and social?
Westerners are so fucking hypocritical.
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I live in that country and i dont even know anything about this
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How much will delivery cost on 2 pairs of size 9 snake skin boots ???
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This is making me cry. I love snakes so much, and seeing these beautiful creatures mistreated is heartbreaking.
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don't know whether I should like or dislike to show my support
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I saw a documentary a while back on illegal activities in the Brazilian Amazon, and in the end the hard truth is that it depends on what you value more. Are you ok with the inevitable extinction/deforestation, or are you ok for some humans having to find another career?
Effectively, what is the greater good. -
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good kill them all
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