Phatthalung: Police arrest couple after bodies of protected species found at market - look away now if squeamish

[webfact]

77kaoded Thai Caption: Protected species found at market (Phatthalung)

 

77kaoded reported action by police in the southern Thai province of Phatthalung after the bodies of protected species were found in a market.

 

Officers from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division were told by a member of the public about the trade in illegal wildlife in three provinces. 

 

They went to the market near the station after receiving information that the animals arrived by train from border areas.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

A couple called Somchart, 42, from Surin, and his wife Suwanna, 47, a local woman were arrested. 

 

Among the dead animals were leopard cats, civets, monitor lizards and squirrels. 

 

Officers posed with the grim find and the two traders. 

 

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[Reposed]

My neighbor has a cast net.

 

He goes early in the morning to the beach and gets fish for eating.

 

When these fish are full-grown, he told me, about 10-12 inches, they are good eating.

 

However, all the ones he brings back are two inches or smaller. 

 

I asked why he doesn't ever catch full-sized.

 

With a puzzled look that told me I was borderline stupid, he said, there aren't anymore, just small ones.......????

[Reposed]

Yeah, sad.

 

They also catch and kill mynah birds for food. I expect ten might feed a seven-year-old.

 

I love those birds....highly intelligent and beautiful sounds.

[Excel]

For a moment there when I read the headlines I thought it was going to be pictures of the  ruling elite ????

[champers]

At least there are no monkeys or bats.

[Tropicalevo]

44 minutes ago, Reposed said:

I love those birds....highly intelligent and beautiful sounds.

But I do not love them when they come into my house and poop everywhere.

[aussienam]

People like this lured by selfish greed are aiding the continual extinction of species, that future generations will only see (only if interested) in old documentaries and online. 

 

Certain Asian cultures have a "me first" mentality and if that means killing and eating the last existing species on the planet for just them, that is fine by them.  

 

Sustainability and conservation is not in their vocabulary.  

[anterian]

3 minutes ago, aussienam said:

People like this lured by selfish greed are aiding the continual extinction of species, that future generations will only see (only if interested) in old documentaries and online. 

 

Certain Asian cultures have a "me first" mentality and if that means killing and eating the last existing species on the planet for just them, that is fine by them.  

 

Sustainability and conservation is not in their vocabulary.  

These words cannot be in a vocabulary if the concepts do not exist in the culture.

[Road Warrior]

but no soi dogs ---ow!!!

[Reposed]

2 hours ago, anterian said:

These words cannot be in a vocabulary if the concepts do not exist in the culture.

Well said.

 

To kill baby fish or mynah birds for one meager meal is sheer ignorance.

 

Electrocuting frogs (article today) is another example.

 

A lake near my house is void of life. They have used black powder, rather than bait and bobber, to decimate anything remotely edible. Omicron, er, I meant, moronic.

 

 

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Officers from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division were told by a member of the public about the trade in illegal wildlife in three provinces. 

 

They went to the market near the station after receiving information that the animals arrived by train from border areas.

So officers were unaware of this going on in the local markets until they were informed?

[Johnnyngai]

Look how malnourished those two are.  

You now understand why they eat what they eat ? 

[Sydebolle]

The root of the problem is education .......... or rather the absence of it!