1,600 animals saved from dinner table
CHUMPHON - Soldiers on Sunday saved 1,580 turtles and 34 pangolins from being shipped to China where they were destined to be served up as exotic meals.
CHUMPHON - Soldiers on Sunday saved 1,580 turtles and 34 pangolins from being shipped to China where they were destined to be served up as exotic meals.
The animals were in plastic boxes hidden under containers filled with fruit in a six-wheel truck being searched at a checkpoint on Phetsakem road in Muang district, army unit leader Theeraporn Boonsue..said
The search found 1,580 turtles hidden in 158 boxes and 34 pangolins in six containers at the bottom of the freight compartment, Sub Lt Theeraporn said. The animals were seized and handed over to the province's...wildlife office.
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