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Wildlife poaching carries on in Thailand.
Poachers striving to capture tiger cubs and provide them at superior charges ended up arrested just one after a different, but this time several rare and live wildlife these kinds of as desert foxes and raccoons were located in the airport baggage.
I’m Wonjang Kim, correspondent for Bangkok.
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On the 16th, at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, 17 raccoons and desert foxes arrived out of the baggage.
The captured smuggler planned to sell these wild animals as animals in India.
Thai police also arrested a gang who tried out to market 7 puppies, together with a scarce bighorn hornbill.
[로이 잉카빠이롯/경감/논타부리 경찰 사이버수사대 : “(새끼 호랑이들은) 일단 까오야이 국립공원에서 잡혀 온 것으로 추정하고 있습니다.”]
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In May possibly, a group of people were being arrested hoping to provide a newborn tiger cub.
Wild tiger cubs are predominantly offered to rich people today in Thailand or to personal zoos.
[카시덱 차로엔랍/경위/태국 자연보호경찰국 : “용의자가 새끼 호랑이를 40만바트(1,500만 원)에 사겠냐고 해서 우리는 선금을 먼저 내고…”]
Southeast Asian countries like Thailand are stepping up their crackdown on poaching each individual 12 months. In the latest a long time, nevertheless, the techniques of poaching and smuggling wild animals have gotten bolder as the cost of trafficked wildlife soars.
Final year, 80 extended-tailed monkeys were located in a pickup truck from Cambodia to Thailand.
Most of the long-tailed monkeys in bins crushed to help save house were dying.
In one particular circumstance, the head of a famed Thai conglomerate was caught looking black panthers in a countrywide park with a chef cooking and eating soup.
Following delaying the lawsuit for a few many years, Lee was finally sentenced to a few several years and two months in jail due to deteriorating public view.
This is Wonjang Kim of KBS News from Bangkok.
Pictures: Lee Yoon-min / Modifying: Lee Tae-hee / Study: Park Je-eun
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