THAI GOVERNMENT JAILED WILDLIFE CONSERVATIONIST INSTEAD OF THE ORANGUTANS SMUGGLER
February 3, 2005 (Press Release) --
WILDIFE CONSERVATIONISTS URGE TOURISTS TO BOYCOTT THAILAND. Tourism in Thailand is still recovering from tsunami, however the conservationists and the people of Indonesia appeal to the world to boycott Thailand. The wildlife conservation organisation, ProFauna Indonesia, is outraged that Thai authority and tourism are involved in the environmental crime on the biggest orang-utan smuggling scandal in history. In 2004 hundreds of Indonesian orang-utans, many of which are infants, were found in Thailand. This critically endangered wildlife is listed in Appendix 1 CITES. Ironically, Thailand is a signatory of CITES convention.
“Safari World Zoo”, in Bangkok originally had at least 115 orang-utans and only half were found confined inhumanely in cramped cages, contracted acute skin infection and herpes. Large numbers went “missing”. Tens of other died because “pneumonia”, Pin Kewkacha the owner of Safari World Zoo confessed in August 2004. The orang-utans were used for cruel “boxing show”
Whilst Pin Kewkacha, the zoo owner was released from questioning, the Thai authority arrested and imprisoned Edwin Wiek on 2 Feb 2005, a conservationist activist of Borneo Orang-utan Survival Foundation, a founder and director of Wildlife Friends of Thailand, who runs an Animal Rescue Centre near Kao Lookchang temple in Thailand. Edwin Wiek was accused of “keeping” illegal wild animals.
The DNA result on 50 orangutans(7 adults and 43 juveniles) identifies that 31 orang-utans were “born” in the zoo while 12 others have no blood relationship. The Thai embassy in Jakarta stated that the orang utans cannot be transferred out of Safari World Zoo Thailand to avoid “stress and death”. Third peace demonstration by ProFauna Indonesia wildlife conservationists and their supporters is held in front of Thai Embassy in Jakarta on 2 Feb 2005, to demand the return of the Indonesian orang-utans to their natural habitats.
“Safari World Zoo”, in Bangkok originally had at least 115 orang-utans and only half were found confined inhumanely in cramped cages, contracted acute skin infection and herpes. Large numbers went “missing”. Tens of other died because “pneumonia”, Pin Kewkacha the owner of Safari World Zoo confessed in August 2004. The orang-utans were used for cruel “boxing show”
Whilst Pin Kewkacha, the zoo owner was released from questioning, the Thai authority arrested and imprisoned Edwin Wiek on 2 Feb 2005, a conservationist activist of Borneo Orang-utan Survival Foundation, a founder and director of Wildlife Friends of Thailand, who runs an Animal Rescue Centre near Kao Lookchang temple in Thailand. Edwin Wiek was accused of “keeping” illegal wild animals.
The DNA result on 50 orangutans(7 adults and 43 juveniles) identifies that 31 orang-utans were “born” in the zoo while 12 others have no blood relationship. The Thai embassy in Jakarta stated that the orang utans cannot be transferred out of Safari World Zoo Thailand to avoid “stress and death”. Third peace demonstration by ProFauna Indonesia wildlife conservationists and their supporters is held in front of Thai Embassy in Jakarta on 2 Feb 2005, to demand the return of the Indonesian orang-utans to their natural habitats.
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