FREELAND Newsroom

(Bangkok)-- Today, Thai authorities confirmed the arrest of 3 suspects linked to the trafficking of
tigers and other endangered species following an undercover operation that ended yesterday in
western Thailand.
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Officers from the Royal Thai Police and Department of National Parks collaborated, with support
from Freeland, to identify suspects possessing and offering to sell skins of tigers, leopards, clouded
leopards, and other endangered species. Undercover buyers lured the suspects to a location in
Kanchanaburi province where the arrest of 4 men and seizure of wildlife body parts was made
during the morning of Tuesday February 15 (yesterday).

(Bangkok)-- Today, Thai authorities confirmed the arrest of 3 suspects linked to the trafficking of
tigers and other endangered species following an undercover operation that ended yesterday in
western Thailand.

​Officers from the Royal Thai Police and Department of National Parks collaborated, with support
from Freeland, to identify suspects possessing and offering to sell skins of tigers, leopards, clouded
leopards, and other endangered species. Undercover buyers lured the suspects to a location in
Kanchanaburi province where the arrest of 4 men and seizure of wildlife body parts was made
during the morning of Tuesday February 15 (yesterday).

BANGKOK — Forest rangers in western Thailand are searching a remote jungle on the Myanmar border hoping to rescue a wild tiger with a missing leg from an area where poachers have recently been operating.
Staff from the wildlife protection organization Freeland spotted the animal earlier this week on video recorded by a remotely operated camera trap in Kanchanaburi province's Khao Laem National Park as it was feeding on the body of a water buffalo.

Authorities have been ordered to step up patrols in Kanchanaburi in order to prevent wildlife poaching in the province's protected areas. Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Varawut Silpa-archa said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered the move after officers at Khao Laem National Park found a tiger's paw in a snare near Pilokki village.

Forest rangers in Western Thailand are searching a remote jungle on the Myanmar border hoping to rescue a wild tiger with a missing leg from an area where poachers have recently been operating. Staff from the wildlife protection organisation Freeland spotted the animal earlier this week on video recorded by a remotely operated camera trap in Kanchanaburi province's Khao Laem National Park as it was feeding on the body of a water buffalo.