Kandal authorities arrest two, seize over 3,000 turtles

[geovalin]

Kandal Provincial Forestry Administration officers in cooperation with provincial economic police officers on Wednesday night arrested two men for allegedly transporting turtles and turtle eggs from Vietnam to Cambodia without authorization.

 

Kandal Provincial Forestry Administration officer Pong Sarun told Khmer Times today that they seized more than 1,000 adult and 2,000 young turtles as well as 2,210 turtle eggs from them in Kean Svay district. He identified the two suspects as Som Saroeun, 28, a mini-bus driver and his assistant Keo To, 38. Both live in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Haek district.

 

Sarun said that at about 11 pm on Wednesday, the two suspects drove their mini bus from the Cambodia-Vietnam border, in Svay Rieg province, towards Phnom Penh and were stopped at a police checkpoint in Kandal province’s Kean Svay district. He said police inspected the vehicle and seized 1,017 adult turtles, weighing a total of 821 kilogrammes; 2,000 young turtles and 2,210 turtle eggs from them.

 

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[jak2002003]

Would like a follow up story to see what happens to the turtles.. 

 

Hope they release them back from where they came and don't leave then to die in the boxes or put them in a zoo.