Wild animals, illegal meat seized in raids

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Phak Seangly

Authorities have seized more than 160 kilograms of illegal wildlife meat and several live animals during separate raids in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces over the past week.

Local Forestry Administration officials searched Stung Treng market in the provincial capital on Monday and confiscated 60 kilograms of meat from wild pig, red muntjac deer, slow loris and a jungle cat, according to provincial FA director Chheang Tola. A live Bengal monitor lizard was also seized, he added.

“We cracked down and seized many kinds of wildlife animals from many female vendors,” he said. “The vendors fled and we chased them across the market, but they managed to escape.”

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It is not just the wild animals that are at risk of being marketed in Cambodia...have you ever seen a stray dog or cat there? Would not be at all surprised to find that some Cambodians cruise the roads looking for road kill to market...like stepping thru a time warp...into a land that is still struggling to find it's way...