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Environment/Science Tiger skins and amulets seized from car leaving Thailand Tiger Temple
Just Earth News 03 Jun 2016, 03:38 pm Print
Bangkok, Jun 2 (Just Earth News): Thai authorities caught a monk on Thursday who was trying to flee the country's now infamous Tiger Temple with a cache of skins, according to media reports.
Reportedly, tiger skins and amulets were seized from a car trying to leave the premises of the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua.
Police and wildlife officials are guarding the temple zoo since Monday after a court ordered the removal of 100 adult cats from the premises.
A day earlier, wildlife officials found 40 tiger cub carcasses in a freezer in the temple, The Guardian reported.
The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, is a tourist destination where visitors snap selfies with bottle-fed cubs.
Officials wearing protective masks displayed the bodies of the cubs to media at the temple. Also on display was the body of a binturong, a protected species commonly known as a bearcat, which the authorities found with the cub carcasses.
In mid-May, the media had reported the busting of a Vietnamese wildlife trafficker selling frozen tiger cubs for 'healing' glue to be made from the cub's meat, skin, claws and bone.
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