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BANGKOK, 15th March 2018 (NNT) – Italian Thai Co Ltd CEO Premchai Karnasutra has heard three more charges stemming from his alleged illegal wildlife hunt and has been released on a bond of 300,000 baht and on the condition that he remain in the country. The CEO heard the additional charges
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The government will close Highway 3259 which runs through Chachoengsao’s Khao Ang Rue Nai wildlife sanctuary in one year, Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan said on Monday. He said the highway would be closed permanently after the new 45-kilometre road now under construction was expected to complete soon. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By
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NONG KHAI, 18TH February 2018 (NNT) - A Lao woman has been arrested for selling the skins of wild animals at a market on the Thai-Lao border in Nong Khai province. On Sunday, Nong Khai Governor Ronnachai Chitwiset led officers to inspect the market at a temporary border checkpoint in Rattanawapi
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BANGKOK, 7th February 2018 (NNT) – The Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, have both confirmed that anyone found to be poaching animals in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary will face legal action. Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-ocha has called for standard police work in the legal processing
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Customs officials seized 136 pangolins and 450 kilogrammes of pangolin scales, worth about 2.5 million baht on Wednesday (Aug 30) night in Pran Buri district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Customs Department director-general Kulit Sombatsiri said. Mr Kulit said on receiving information that pangolins and pangolin scales would be smuggled from
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Traffickers in wildlife in Malaysia have increasingly switched to land routes instead of boat in their smuggling of endangered wild animals and plants from Indonesia and Malaysia into Thailand before being smuggled out through Laos into Vietnam and China, according to Somkiart Sunthornpitakkul, director of Wildlife and Plants Protection Office,
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Metropolitan police today (June 30) arrested a couple and their colleague and charged them with the selling of protected wildlife. They were identified as Jenarong Sainark, 27, his girlfriend Ms Walapa Kaochotchuang, 22, and Opas Pumpuay, 25. Full story: thaipbs.or.th Thai PBS
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A provincial bus driver was arrested in Thai Muang district of Phang-nga province after 964 rare fish and other protected marine species were found in a bus he was driving from Takua Pa to Phuket. Acting of a tipoff, Thai Muang district police and officials of the marine resources conservation centre
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