Councillor calls for system to deal with lizards and snakes captured in Bangkok

By The Nation

 

Bangkok has no way of dealing with monitor lizards captured in the city and can only release them to be recaptured later, a councillor said on Tuesday.

 

Somboon Muangklam said during a Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) council meeting that 4,580 monitor lizards and 34,375 snakes had been captured in the capital last year.

 

He said, however, that the BMA has no system to deal with snakes and monitor lizards after their capture.

 

He said captured snakes would be held at fire stations for a week or a month and then handed over to the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry.

 

Somboon said the BMA has no place to hold captured monitor lizards. The lizards are released in desolate areas only to be recaptured later when residents in those areas complain.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30339289

 

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Rats, frogs, fish and snakes caught in rice fields are eaten. Can't we eat the captured reptiles?

Twa ngern twatong e.g. monitor lizards are a protected species therefore illegal to kill...

Relocate in wilderness areas or National Parks where there are similar/same species?

No Chinese restaurants in Bangkok ?

Here in Phuket there is a big snake (python or big cobra) reported at least several times a week. Promptly caught and released into the wild by the rescue service reptile catchers. Monitor lizards are rarely reported, just too common and the local prefer to dispose of them via the cookpot. Should be little problem in BKK to haul such a few km to the north and release in one of the parklands.