Online wildlife trader arrested
14 Wild animal pelts, antlers bones and other parts seized during a raid on a house in Ratchaburi on Wednesday. Alleged major online wildlife trader Thanasit Sripatchim was arrested. (Photo from @prhotnews02, DNP PR Facebook page)
RATCHABURI: A suspected major online wildlife trader has been arrested and items including pelts of wild tigers and leopard cats, barking deer antlers and animal bones seized during a raid on a house in Pak Tho district.
Wildlife officials had set up a sting to arrest a man named Thanasit, who is alleged to be a major wildlife trader on Facebook, Mongkhol Chaipakdi, chief of the Phaya Sua task force, said on Thursday.
Tiger, leopard pelts seized at Bangkok hotel
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published : 24 Dec 2020 at 18:00
47 Wildlife officials examine the pelts of protected tigers and leopards, and other items during the raid on a hotel in Sukhumvit area, Bangkok, on Wednesday. (Photo: Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division)
Wildlife officials have seized tiger and leopard pelts, and shells of protected turtles during a raid on a hotel in Sukhumvit area of Bangkok.
Officials from the Yiew Dong and Phaya Sua task forces, a special operations team and police found the goods during a search of the Carbochon Hotel, in Klong Tan Nua of Watthana district, on Wednesday.