"Big Too" - Thai PM - gets tough on hunters hunting tigers

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Hunting the hunters

 

Daily News reported that the environment minister Varawut Silpa-Archa said that the Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha - who they called Big Too in their headline - was getting tough on tiger poachers and hunters.

 

Reinforcements are being drafted in to bolster efforts to protect tigers in the area of Kanchanaburi where there have already been arrests after two carcasses were found and parts of tigers were BBQing. 

 

There is now illegal activity going on by hunters unauthorised to look for a three legged tiger who rangers are trying to trap and save after several attacks in the area. 

 

It involves an illegal trap or snare that was dug with the person responsible facing jail or a 500,000 baht fine. 

 

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[sammieuk1]

Fire up the BBQ fat blokes with big guns are trying to winkle out Tigger this time if it moves in the forest shoot it if it moves on the road run it down ???? 

[ezzra]

I'm with the PM on this regards, infarct, all hunting of wild life to stop or with very limited permits and only those animals who are plenty in nature... enough with the senseless exterminations of engendered animals...

[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

I'm with the PM on this regards, infarct, all hunting of wild life to stop

But he cannot get tough on rich kids killing policemen.

[TheScience]

Bad enough having insatiable Chinese market. The local oligarchs like shooting rare animals for sport.

 

Villagers are so poor they are driven to raping the forests.

 

Who here thinks there will be wild tigers in SEA in 10 years? Not me.

 

They can't even keep motorcycles off the footpath.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Daily News reported that the environment minister Varawut Silpa-Archa said that the Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha - who they called Big Too in their headline - was getting tough on tiger poachers and hunters.

Did spell-check delete an "L" ?

[CLW]

Show me a person who gets jailed or payed the 500.000 Baht for setting a tiger trap and I'll pay his lawyer

[Cake Monster]

The officials cannot even keep control of the Streets and Sidewalks, where people are killed by vehicles in plain view during daylight Hours.

How do they expect to take control of a jungle.

[spidermike007]

Anytime it is announced that Prayuth is getting tough on something, one has to be careful for the two week period until it is all forgotten. This man has proven himself time and time again, to be anything but a master of follow up. 

 

Preventing the killing of exotic and rare wildlife is always a good thing. If only there was some sincerity behind it. 

Edited February 16, 2022 by spidermike007

[cardinalblue]

Tigers over policemen any day of the week…

 

I think you mean paid….

[connda]

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

I'm with the PM on this regards, infarct, all hunting of wild life to stop or with very limited permits and only those animals who are plenty in nature... enough with the senseless exterminations of engendered animals...

Ever stop and think why in the US we have states where the deer population is a nuisance and there are plenty of deer to hunt annually, but here in Thailand about the only place you can find wildlife like deer are in a National Reserve where they still aren't safe? 
There is such a disdain for authority and laws as well as virtually no enforcement.  How sad.