Thai Worker In China Mauled By Tiger

[Jai Dee]

Thai worker in China mauled by tiger

A Thai worker was killed while visiting a tiger zoo in Hainan province of China.

The Director General of Information and Spokesperson to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tharit Charungwat (ธฤต จรุงวัฒน์) revealed that he has received reports from the Thai Consulate to Kwangzhou city (นครกวางโจว) that a Thai worker was mauled and killed while visiting a tiger zoo in Sanya City of Hainan province (มณฑลไห่หนาน) in the People's Republic of China.

The incident occurred at 8 PM on May 20th, and the victims was identified as Mr. Polpen Dernklang (พรเพ็ญ เดิ่นกลาง), from Nakhonratchasima province.

Mr. Polpen is a worker at the Sanya City tiger zoo, and was mauled when cleaning the tiger cages. He later succumbed to his injuries while enroute to a local hospital. The victim's body will be transpoted back to Thailand for funeral ceremonies.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 22 May 2007

[Jai Dee]

Tiger mauls Thai keeper to death in Hainan

A tiger at a breeding farm on south China's Hainan island attacked and killed its keeper on Sunday morning.

The incident occurred when 42-year-old Phornhen Doenklang, from Thailand, was cleaning a cage that housed two tigers at Longhu Zoo - a tiger and crocodile farm in Sanya City.

A male tiger, in his mating season, pounced on the keeper when he moved to pick up a broom and bit his leg and neck.

The victim was rushed to hospital but died after medical treatment.

Doenklang had been tending the eight-year-old tiger since it was born, according to the head of the zoo, a man surnamed Wang.

"Tigers are irritable during their mating seasons, particularly when it is very hot weather, which it has been in recent days," said Wang. "The tiger might have thought Phornhen was about to strike him when he bent to pick up the broom."

At the request of Doenklang's wife, who looks after tiger cubs in the same breeding farm, the farm is contacting airline companies to arrange the transport of Doenklang's body back to Thailand.

The fate of the tiger is still under discussion.

The Longhu farm is home to 370 tigers and nearly 20,000 crocodiles and is run in conjunction with a Thai company, which has sent 40 of its workers to China.

Source: Xinhua - 22 May 2007

[sriracha john]

A Bengal tiger rests in its cage at a zoo in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province May 20, 2007. The tiger mauled a Thailand keeper to death as he prepared to clean the enclosure on Sunday morning. The grisly death surprised other staff at the zoo because the keeper had been tending to the tiger for six years since its birth.

China Daily

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Tigers attacking humans is certainly not without precedent:

[jbowman1993]

Hey, as long as its not about double pricing for tourists, or the bad things that thai people do to foreigners...who gives a f$$k, right?

(hopefully the sarcasm has come through to the reader intact)

[LindsayBKK]

Well Thailand has it's fair share of animal handlers that have a death wish. Crocodile's, Snakes & the odd crazy elephant. I am just guessing here but wouldn't you take the Tiger out of the cage before you cleaned it. I think these guys have been watching too many re-runs of Steve Erwin on the National Geographic Channel. Not a nice way to die in any case. Tiger 1 Animal Handlers 0.

[sriracha john]

Well Thailand has it's fair share of animal handlers that have a death wish. Crocodile's, Snakes & the odd crazy elephant. I am just guessing here but wouldn't you take the Tiger out of the cage before you cleaned it. I think these guys have been watching too many re-runs of Steve Erwin on the National Geographic Channel. Not a nice way to die in any case. Tigers: 1 Animal Handlers: 0.

A teenage worker at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo tragically died after being mauled by six tigers in front of more than 100 shocked tourists.

"She passed away in hospital," a spokeswoman from the Sriracha Tiger Zoo southeast of Bangkok said, declining to elaborate on the attack that took place on Thursday. Media reports said 18-year-old Uraiwan Sansern received deep wounds and a cracked spine when she was set upon by six Bengal tigers she was handling for the benefit of tourists.

The young worker was reportedly untrained to handle the dangerous animals, and was trying to make a tiger sit for tourists by hitting it with a stick when the attack occurred.

- The Nation

Tigers: 2 Animal Handlers: 0

[Jimjim]

Hey, as long as its not about double pricing for tourists, or the bad things that thai people do to foreigners...who gives a f$$k, right?

(hopefully the sarcasm has come through to the reader intact)

Sure I can see the sarcasm but what exactly is it in response to?

[ozymandious]

Holy Crap!

Poor guy

Poor Tiger

[wintermute]

The young worker was reportedly untrained to handle the dangerous animals, and was trying to make a tiger sit for tourists by hitting it with a stick when the attack occurred.

- The Nation

How completely idiotic do you have to be to do this? Actually, if Thailand sent more young people to act as tiger handlers it would quickly weed out the stupid people in the population and raise the average IQ like the public ministry wants.

[sriracha john]

The young worker was reportedly untrained to handle the dangerous animals, and was trying to make a tiger sit for tourists by hitting it with a stick when the attack occurred.

- The Nation

How completely idiotic do you have to be to do this? Actually, if Thailand sent more young people to act as tiger handlers it would quickly weed out the stupid people in the population and raise the average IQ like the public ministry wants.

The untrained teenager gets killed a second time.

[sriracha john]

as more is revealed, I fear that the Death Trap known as Sriracha Tiger Zoo might have been involved in yet another death.... Turns out it the location in China wasn't really a zoo; the same as Sriracha Tiger Zoo is not a zoo.

Tiger mauls Thai keeper to death in Hainan

HAIKOU - A tiger at a breeding farm on south China's Hainan island attacked and killed its keeper on Sunday morning.

The incident occurred when 42-year-old Phornhen Doenklang, from Thailand, was cleaning a cage that housed two tigers at Longhu Zoo - a tiger and crocodile farm in Sanya City.

A male tiger, in his mating season, pounced on the keeper when he moved to pick up a broom and bit his leg and neck.

The victim was rushed to hospital but died after medical treatment.

Doenklang had been tending the eight-year-old tiger since it was born, according to the head of the zoo, a man surnamed Wang.

"Tigers are irritable during their mating seasons, particularly when it is very hot weather, which it has been in recent days," said Wang. "The tiger might have thought Phornhen was about to strike him when he bent to pick up the broom."

At the request of Doenklang's wife, who looks after tiger cubs in the same breeding farm, the farm is contacting airline companies to arrange the transport of Doenklang's body back to Thailand.

The fate of the tiger is still under discussion.

The Longhu farm is home to 370 tigers and nearly 20,000 crocodiles and is run in conjunction with a Thai company, which has sent 40 of its workers to China.

- Xinhua

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Trying to find an article to confirm that this "Thai company" was Sriracha Tiger Zoo.... but I strongly suspect it is.

[Prakanong]

Sky News have been running a story all night about conditions in Chinese Zo's

Showing footage of them feeding live cows to the tigers while bus loads of people watch on.

There was also other stories about the very poor conditions.

[Scott]

This is sad and tragic but not surprising. I was at my vet's last night to pick up some medicine. There were about 8-10 dogs with owners there. As people came in they would run over and start playing with some of these animals. None were muzzled and some were rather distressed--not a good combination.

I love animals and have few problems with them, but I do know enough to keep my distance. Cleaning (or doing anything) in a tiger cage with a lose animal is seriously flawed mentality--either on the part of the worker or the employer or both.

My deepest sympathies to the family.

[sriracha john]

In March [2004], Thai legislators launched an investigation into a cargo of 100 live Bengal tigers from Sriracha Zoo that were sent by jumbo jet to Sanya Love World theme park in Hainan, southern China, *same Chinese island, old zoo name?* on Christmas Eve 2002. Love World is run by Sanya-Maitree Concept Co, which is co-owned by the Hainan Governor, Wei Liucheng, and a Thai entrepreneur, Maitree Temsiripong.

Mr Maitree told reporters that a new Chinese government-sponsored research centre for tigers has ambitious plans to breed 200,000 cats within the next five years and eventually to release some from a forest preserve into the wild. No hard evidence appears to back up these claims, however. A spokeswoman from Sriracha Zoo, Jin Tana, denied that its tiger-breeding project had ever smuggled or trafficked animals for commercial gain: "Those 100 tigers were not sold. It was merely an exchange of animals with our Chinese partner." But last week, Thailand's National Intelligence subcommittee ruled that three government officials should be disciplined for violating the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) by signing export papers for Sriracha without checking how the animals were obtained.

Thailand's notoriety as a wildlife trafficking supermarket will be hard to shed if it is proven that officials exploited a loophole that allows the loan and exchange of endangered species for scientific breeding programmes.

Mr Watkins believes that the officials are being used as scapegoats. He said: "The government is anxious to clear the whole thing up before the CITES conference, and so is prosecuting a few officials. The whole park just clearly needs to be closed. There is no justification for breeding tigers in such large numbers; they are unlikely to survive if released into the wild and they are not being bred in registered studbooks and so zoos won't touch them."

Tiger pelts are valuable but hard to conceal, and black marketeers earn far more money by digging under the skin. The Chinese traditionally use ground tiger bone to ease rheumatism, the brain to treat acne and kidney fat to prolong erections. Tiger penis is soaked with an exotic liqueur which is quaffed at high end Chinese brothels. But the live tigers from Sriracha were labelled "No commercial value".

A report conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency into Thailand's tiger economy in 2001 found that several medicines derived from tiger bones were actually on sale on the zoo premises, at the Sriracha Health Traditional Medical Clinic.

- The Independent (UK) - September 5, 2004

[kmart]

"When Chinese Medicine Goes Bad!" should have been the headline.

I don't like zoos at the best of times, but those "Tiger Zoos" are a disgrace...

[macular]

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Trying to find an article to confirm that this "Thai company" was Sriracha Tiger Zoo.... but I strongly suspect it is.

“。。。2001年，三亚龙虎园从泰国是拉差龙虎园引进这头孟加拉虎后。。。“

Translation:

"...Longhu zoo in Sanya has brought in this Bengal Tiger from Thailand's Sriracha Tiger Zoo in 2001..."

http://news.china.com/zh_cn/social/1007/20...1/14108505.html

[Steely Dan]

The young worker was reportedly untrained to handle the dangerous animals, and was trying to make a tiger sit for tourists by hitting it with a stick when the attack occurred.

- The Nation

How completely idiotic do you have to be to do this? Actually, if Thailand sent more young people to act as tiger handlers it would quickly weed out the stupid people in the population and raise the average IQ like the public ministry wants.

Just thought of a new slogan for the tourist ministry to use;- Visit Thailand, the worlds first Darwin awards theme park.

[sriracha john]

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Trying to find an article to confirm that this "Thai company" was Sriracha Tiger Zoo.... but I strongly suspect it is.

“。。。2001年，三亚龙虎园从泰国是拉差龙虎园引进这头孟加拉虎后。。。“

Translation:

"...Longhu zoo in Sanya has brought in this Bengal Tiger from Thailand's Sriracha Tiger Zoo in 2001..."

http://news.china.com/zh_cn/social/1007/20...1/14108505.html

WOW!.... Thank you very much for that link and information!... It's EXACTLY how I feared in that post and apparently it was EXACTLY as I suspected in the other post that they simply changed the name of the place that got busted.

BUT... dammit... It's yet another Black Eye on the good name of Sriracha by that embarassing blight, the Sriracha Death Trap.. that frickin' horror theme park needs to close before it soils us again. Enough already with their littany of crimes... as my thaivisa posts spanning through three years attest to:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=979294

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=762553

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=764508

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=523120

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=507495

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=183822

Make them stop abusing one of Mother Nature's most exquisite creations...

thank you again for your post, macular Is that Mandarin?

Edited May 23, 2007 by sriracha john

[sriracha john]

The young worker was reportedly untrained to handle the dangerous animals, and was trying to make a tiger sit for tourists by hitting it with a stick when the attack occurred.

- The Nation

How completely idiotic do you have to be to do this? Actually, if Thailand sent more young people to act as tiger handlers it would quickly weed out the stupid people in the population and raise the average IQ like the public ministry wants.

Just thought of a new slogan for the tourist ministry to use;- Visit Thailand, the worlds first Darwin awards theme park.

The untrained teenager gets killed a third time.

[macular]

thank you again for your post, macular Is that Mandarin?

Yes, John. That was in Mandarin.

Those "zoos" are responsible for the disappearance of tigers in Khao Yai.

Drove passed by Khao Yai 2 weeks ago, only managed to see monkeys.

Sie jai...

[keebone]

Wonder if the tiger killing someone affects its price when sold in the zoo restaurant.

[sriracha john]

thank you again for your post, macular Is that Mandarin?

Yes, John. That was in Mandarin.

Those "zoos" are responsible for the disappearance of tigers in Khao Yai.

Drove passed by Khao Yai 2 weeks ago, only managed to see monkeys.

Sie jai...

Thank you, macular.

It is indeed a real shame that one of this World's supreme life-forms is being snuffed out... I've seen estimates that fewer than 5,000 of them exist in the wild today world-wide.

Unfortunately, the despicable practices of Sriracha Tiger Breeding Frenzy Zoo are turning into indiscriminate, scientifically unsound breeding factories which is rapidly destroying the DNA pool with their in-breeding and over-breeding. They are killing off this magnificant animal.

BOYCOTT SRIRACHA TIGER ZOO