Officials investigate animals at "Tiger Temple" after tourist complaint - all above board

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

A complaint by a tourist on the 1362 National Parks' hotline led to director of conversation at Ban Pong Sikhapong Krajejan and police visiting Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua or Wat Seua (the so called Tiger Temple) in Sai Yok, Kanchanaburi in western Thailand yesterday. 

 

The tourist complained that there were protected species of deer and peacock at the controversial temple.

 

It was famously raided and at the center of widespread charges in June 2016 after 147 tigers were rescued along with many other protected species including bears and barking deer. 

 

On this occasion investigators found lots of animals but none on the protected species list. They were shown around the grounds by the manager Athithai Srimanee.

 

There were cows, buffalo, wild boar, horses and deer roaming free.

 

The deer were shown to be Javan Rusa a foreign species that is not a protected creature. 

 

There were no peacocks and Athithai explained that they were a flock of about 30 Indian peacocks, another foreign species, that lived naturally in the hills behind the temple and in the area of the Kwae Yai river, reported Daily News.

 

They would fly into the temple to feed there two or three times a week. 

 

The wild boar were also not a protected species having been removed from the list some while ago. The creature is farmed like chickens or other animals. 

 

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[HappyExpat57]

Karen? Was that you, Karen?

[Sydebolle]

Well, I guess that the protected species were served some time ago in a Chinese eatery; the non-protected species can be mistreated as before ....... file closed, all good! Amazing Thailand indeed ..... 

[Crossy]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

... director of conversation at Ban Pong ...

 

I had to look twice, but darn you autocorrect.

 

[tracker1]

It was famously raided ? what was famous about an animal abuse centre and it appears it is still operating

[hotchilli]

I'm surprised without tourists it's still functioning.

[rwill]

Most of the tigers they "saved" died from bad care at the government centers they were sent to.

[MrJ2U]

I really hate these places.

Disturbing how awful it can be.

 

I don't go to these places as there depressing.

 

But........

If there not eating them leave 'em be.

 

Thailand does things differently.

 

 

 

 

[internationalism]

the majority of those "rescued" by the department of national parks did die within 3 years.

Apparently, at the temple they thrived. From a few abandoned cubs found in the nearby jungle they multiplied to hundreds.

There is strong suspicion that there were sold by the government officials to china, that after removing their gps tags

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49712765