Thai wildlife officials and police intercepted a shipment of 47 macaque monkeys on a pickup truck Monday morning, at a checkpoint on Friendship highway in Non Sung district of the north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima.

 

The two men in the truck were arrested after the officials found the monkeys, which are believed to be being shipped to China through Laos.

 

The driver of the truck, Kritaya, reportedly told the officials that they took delivery of the monkeys in Ratchaburi province, to be delivered to a customer in the province of Nong Khai, opposite Vientiane of Laos, who would then have sent the monkeys on to China.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/47-smuggled-monkeys-intercepted-on-their-way-to-china-via-laos/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-03-07

 

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The Chinese are open for business again - time to say good bye to tigers, rhinos, elephants, pangolins, and anything else they can get hold of. The Chinese have plenty of money saved up.

Thailand will traffic anything if the price is right.

Do these people ever feel any remorse? No papa, no mama!

1 hour ago, bkkmeatloaf said:

Do these people ever feel any remorse? No papa, no mama!

Time to bbq a couple of pandas. Maybe the Chinese will learn their lesson and change their destructive habbits.

Tham Pha Mak Ho Temple, in Ban Thai Charoen village that reported hundreds of missing monkeys in mid February reports that the missing monkeys are still missing.

They finally found something!

Thais are the nicest people money can buy! Even understood so by the red brethren from the North; guess what will happen once the Lao-China Highspeed railway extension is operational into Bangkok ???? 

Soon there will be no wildlife of any kind in Thailand. At best Thai officials couldn't care less, at worst they take a share of the poaching profits.

Seems like Bats are now off the menu. Monkeys are the latest fad.

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand will traffic anything if the price is right.

And the Chinese will eat anything they can get their hands on.

20 minutes ago, xylophone said:

And the Chinese will eat anything they can get their hands on.

Or teeth into?  

 

Article claiming the monkeys were to be slaughtered for traditional Chinese medicine. 

I wonder how they were going to be slaughtered?  Skull piece lifted off and brains eaten alive by Chinese weirdos wanting better erections despite painfully torturing creatures alive? Chinese have a reputation for deliberately torturing animals as part of its traditional medicine out of their backwards beliefs.