Officials at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok caught a tourist attempting to smuggle 25 exotic live birds out of Thailand on a flight to the Maldives yesterday morning, reports KhaoSod.

Customs officials made quite the discovery when they inspected luggage destined to board flight PG711 to Malé in the Maldives at 9.20am, reported Prasert Sornsathapornkul, the Director of the Division for the Protection of Wildlife and Wild Plants under the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.

 

Stuffed inside two suitcases, officials found 25 live birds including black kites, buffy fish owls, and barred eagle owls – all CITES-listed species – with an estimated collective value of 100,000 baht.

 

Full story: https://bangkokone.news/maldivian-tourist-caught-smuggling-25-live-birds/

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

Stuffed inside two suitcases, officials found 25 live birds including black kites, buffy fish owls, and barred eagle owls – all CITES-listed species – with an estimated collective value of 100,000 baht.

So the investigation will lead back to who he bought the animals from and arrest them too?

I should expect the survival rate of birds shipped in this manner to be low. Is there a demand for these in the Maldives?

Why buy them in first place unlikely to survive if taken from wild or exotic endangered species ! was problem in Australia for long time our wild life smugglers to America or Europe  cockatoos etc , even snake big money in the old days, unfortunately most were put down due to stress they suffered stuffed in plastic pipes etc,. fines do nothing , prison terms only way try detur these parasites of exotic pet trade