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Thai rangers person arrested 2 men suspected of being portion of an planetary wildlife smuggling network, the subject said Saturday aft they were intercepted successful a car carrying 81 macaques adjacent the Cambodian border.
Thailand is simply a large transit hub for wildlife smugglers, who often merchantability highly-prized endangered creatures connected the lucrative achromatic marketplace successful China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
A patrol stopped the conveyance connected Friday day successful Aranyaprathet territory of Sa Kaeo province, wherever troops recovered the monkeys stuffed into bluish nett bags.
"At 3:20 pm, authorities arrested the 2 suspects and inspected their vehicle," the 12th Ranger Forces Regiment, which is liable for the area, said successful a statement connected Facebook.
The soldiers besides seized methamphetamine pills and crystal meth, though nary quantities were specified.
A patrol stopped the conveyance connected Friday day successful Aranyaprathet territory of Sa Kaeo province, wherever troops recovered the monkeys stuffed into bluish nett bags.
Thailand 12th Ranger Forces Regiment
During questioning, the men admitted they were progressive successful a cross-border trafficking ringing moving macaques from Thailand into Cambodia, the subject said successful a Facebook post.
Troops were moving with constabulary to prosecute charges nether wildlife-protection and narcotics laws.
Last twelvemonth Thailand sent astir 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises backmost to their location successful Madagascar, aft some countries' biggest cognition against wildlife trafficking.
In June, Indian customs officers seized astir 100 creatures including lizards, sunbirds and tree-climbing possums, from a passenger arriving from Thailand. Wildlife commercialized show TRAFFIC, which battles the smuggling of chaotic animals, said astatine the clip thatmore than 7,000 animals, dormant and alive, person been seized on the Thailand-India aerial way successful the past 3-and-a-half years.
In May, Thai constabulary arrested a antheral suspected of smuggling 2 babe orangutans into the kingdom. That cognition was supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Office of Law Enforcement. A 47-year-old was arrested astatine a Bangkok state presumption arsenic helium prepared to manus implicit the animals to a buyer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife said astatine the time.
Last year, Thai customs officials arrested six Indians for attempting to smuggle a reddish panda and 86 different animals retired of the kingdom, including snakes, parrots and show lizards.
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