Thai wildlife authorities using camera traps to combat tiger poaching

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Thai wildlife authorities using camera traps to combat tiger poaching

TAK – Police in Uthai Thani nabbed several tiger poachers, thanks to evidence that turned up on a camera trap.

It all started when tiger skins and body parts were found at a police checkpoint in Mae Sot District in Western Thailand.

Authorities along with experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society then went back to images that had been collected on camera traps from the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, where they suspected the tiger might have come from. Alas, they found that the pattern on a female tiger caught on camera with her cubs matched that of the confiscated tiger skin.

The poachers have since been arrested and there is no information on the whereabouts of her cubs whose age has been estimated at 2-years-old.

Full story: http://www.chiangraitimes.com/thai-wildlife-authorities-using-camera-traps-to-combat-tiger-poaching.html


-- Chiang Rai Times 2015-11-20

[jaywalker]

Well golly gee-whiz!

They are using....wait for it....Technology!!!!!!!!!

The only thing newsworthy about using game cameras (in Thailand), is that there was actually a working camera in the box/casing instead of a rock.

[elgordo38]

Poacher selfies what a unique idea. Sadly by the time the picture is viewed the carnage has been done.

[chilli42]

I admit that using video to combat poachers is an overdue discovery. However, being a hunter myself I can tell you that this is a real force multiplier. So better Lat than never.