Four tiger cubs seized from man in Thailand’s Mukdahan province

[snoop1130]

 

Thai police and officials from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation seized four tiger cubs and arrested an alleged wildlife trafficker in the north-eastern province of Mukdahan today (Tuesday).

 

National park officials said that undercover agents had been in contact with a 63-year-old Thai man, a resident of Khun Tan district in the northern province Chiang Rai, who was suspected of having been engaged in the transnational trafficking of endangered wildlife species since mid-September, involving Laotian and Vietnamese businessmen.

 

The undercover agents offered to buy four tiger cubs and it was agreed that the cats would be delivered in Nong Khai Province on October 25th. The delivery date was then postponed to October 31st and, again, until yesterday, with the location of the delivery changed to Mukdahan province.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/four-tiger-cubs-seized-from-man-in-thailands-mukdahan-province/

 

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[steven100]

go after everyone involved and lock them all up for 20 years imo.

These folks are the exact reason animal become extinct as they don't give a rats,  it's all about money.

[ezzra]

For once, job well done boys, those cubs belong in the care of the right people and not as house-pet...

[steven100]

Just now, ezzra said:

For once, job well done boys, those cubs belong in the care of the right people and not as house-pet...

and not a zoo ......   they belong in a secure protected nature reserve.  

[billd766]

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

go after everyone involved and lock them all up for 20 years imo.

These folks are the exact reason animal become extinct as they don't give a rats,  it's all about money.

Instead of putting them in jail just lock them up in small cages for 20 years.

[rwill]

12 hours ago, ezzra said:

For once, job well done boys, those cubs belong in the care of the right people and not as house-pet...

But the tigers they took from the temple in Kanchanaburi, to the delight of lots of people, didn't fare well when put into government care.  Over 50% of them died within a year.

[topt]

No suggestion in the article about where the cubs originated from.......

I have no idea how old the cubs are but wonder what happened to the mother? 

[Whip]

Like all poaching- they need to go after the "business men" behind the scheme.

[billd766]

2 hours ago, topt said:

No suggestion in the article about where the cubs originated from.......

I have no idea how old the cubs are but wonder what happened to the mother? 

From what I read in the 'other' paper, it seems that the cubs were smuggled in from Laos, and to get the cubs the mother was probably killed.

 

She would probably have fought to the death to protect her cubs, or been trapped somehow herself.

 

Bar stewards like the trader should be staked out, naked and unarmed as food for any wild animal to eat.

[BritScot]

2 hours ago, Whip said:

Like all poaching- they need to go after the "business men" behind the scheme.

All poaching? I hope you mean poaching involving financial gain/endangered animals? I admit as a kid I did a little poaching: rabbits, pheasants and fish and all consumed and not sold. Some people are very poor and when the rich own everything. 

[steven100]

23 hours ago, topt said:

No suggestion in the article about where the cubs originated from.......

I have no idea how old the cubs are but wonder what happened to the mother? 

trapped and killed by poachers for her hide & bones.