Forest rangers in Khao Laem national park in Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi have been instructed to collect and destroy all the animal traps in the park and to track down the poachers responsible for wounding a tiger with one of those traps.

 

The wounded big cat was captured last week, on one of the 20 camera traps set up by Freeland Foundation conservationists and park officials, eating a buffalo carcass near the scene where a Karen villager had been attacked by a tiger last month. The tiger had lost its right rear paw.

 

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa said today (Monday) that forest rangers had found a decomposed tiger paw in one of the traps.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/rangers-told-to-destroy-all-animal-traps-in-khao-laem-national-park/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-02-14

 

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the rangers have to be told this ? Like one would assume this would happen without direct instruction .... maybe a small cottage industry reselling found traps one wonders

 

I thought the tiger was missing it’s rear leg…?

T'I'T'; but the order is better later than never!

Whether it is obeyed is another matter.

Sad to imagine it chewed its own leg off.   Needs to be placed in sanctuary where it can be cared for or it will kill a human

Sincerely hope they do an extremely thorough job and then keep up the patrols. Thailand should follow India's example in the world-class Kaziranga NP (where there are now over 1,000 rhinoceros) and shoot poachers on sight, no questions asked, just open fire. It's a war one wildlife today. Ridiculous to call it anything else. Needs to be treated as such. 

it's a mindset all to common in humans. The forest's, prairie's and oceans  are to vast and wont run out.  How people in Thailand know people who have taken orchids from the forest for display at home or sale?  It's a lot.