PHUKET: A green sea turtle laid 125 eggs on a beach on this southern island for the first time this year late Friday night. The rare turtle came ashore on Ao Sane beach in tambon Rawei of Muang district, said Arun Sorot, the mayor of Rawai municipality. Full article: Bangkok Post Achadthaya Chuenniran BANGKOK POST
Late Friday night or early this morning, thieves stole most of the eggs from the nest of a rare leatherback turtle, which had come ashore in Khao Lampi-Hat Thai Muang national park in Thailand’s southern coastal province of Phang-nga to lay. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a well-known marine scientist and chair of a working committee on rare […]
Customs officials and army troops seized more than 4,500 baby endangered turtles and some tropical fish from a passenger van on the Mae Sot-Tak highway in Mae Sot district of Thailand’s northwestern province of Tak on Tuesday. The seized turtles include 586 Indian star tortoises, an endangered species listed in Category 1 by CITES, 75 […]
After a 23 year absence from the beach in Thai Muang district of the southern Thai province of Phang-nga, Ridley’s turtles have returned to the beaches to breed, causing excitement among park officials. On Friday, Mr. Jatuporn Burutpat, director-general of the Marine and Coastal Resources Department, said that he had been informed by the chief […]
More than 20 sea turtles landed on two beaches in Phuket and Phang-nga provinces and most of them died with the rest being seriously injured with little chance of survival in the past two months, said Thorn Thamrongnavaswasdi, vice dean of the fisheries faculty of Kasetsart University, on Saturday. The marine scientist said that more […]
Veterinarians laboured for seven hours to remove 915 coins weighing five kilogrammes from a sea turtle suffering chronic stomach ache. “It is hard to imagine how it swallowed such a large number of coins. I’ve never seen such a case before,” said Pasakorn Brikshavana, of Chulalongkorn University’s faculty of veterinary science. Full story: Bangkok Post […]
Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division police yesterday arrested a man after he posted sales of several protected and endangered wildlife species on the internet. Police identified the man, a resident of Khon Kaen province, as Tanawat Kongchomchaiwat. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
SA KAEO – Up to 100 turtles and a cobra were abandoned by the side of a road after police stopped a smuggling truck headed to the Thai-Cambodian border. The officers stopped a pickup truck at a checkpoint on Road No.359 in Muang district yesterday and asked to see the driver’s licence and inspect the […]
