Thread: Officials seized 1,666 black bear claws from bus in Ayutthaya

Police and forest officials have seized 1,666 Asia black bear claws and arrested four men, including a Vietnamese and a Laotian, in a major bust of transnational wildlife carcass trafficking gang.


Acting on a tip-off that a large shipment of carcasses of protected wildlife species were to be sent to Laos on a bus on January 19, police and forest officials set up a roadblock in Wang Noi district of Ayutthaya province.


When the bus arrived at the roadblock at about 4 pm, the officials ordered the bus to stop and conducted a thorough search which uncovered a bag in a compartment near the driver, identified as Kratai Sisuvan, a Lao national.


Inside the bag, they found 1,666 Asiatic black bear claws.


Information extracted from the bus driver led police to the arrest of a Vietnamese, Nguyen Van Herb, and two Thais, Thamnoon Kongdee and Warapong Panjam.


Pol Gen Chalermkiart Sriworakhan, the deputy national police chief, said the arrest of the four men was the result of a follow-up investigation after the recent arrest of a Vietnamese and the seizure of about one million baht worth of ivory products.


He said that the bag containing the bear claws was hand-delivered to the bus driver by a Vietnamese, identified only as Minh and meant to be sent to Pakse in Laos where it would be picked up by another Lao man and to be sent to buyers in a third country.


He said that the 1,666 bear claws came from at least 83 slaughtered black bears, adding that the claws would be used to make decorative items or amulets which could fetch between 8,000-10,000 baht apiece.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/officia...-in-ayutthaya/

claws from 83 slaughtered bears,also tiger bones and other.how to you slaughter all this wild life without attracting forestry officials,they must have used blow pipes and BROWN ENVELOPES.

that's terrible
83 21 footed black bears slaughtered, its not surprising you don't see many of that species anymore

Originally Posted by reinvented

that's terrible
83 21 footed black bears slaughtered, its not surprising you don't see many of that species anymore

20-clawed black bears, 5 claws on each of 4 feet.

More bj's needed.

Wearing a bear claw amulet shows a lack of something. Not sure it's bjs.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

20-clawed black bears, 5 claws on each of 4 feet.

1666 claws divided by 20 equals 83.3 bears.

Just saying.

Originally Posted by Switch

1666 claws divided by 20 equals 83.3 bears.

Just saying.

Yeah. 83 was what the Thai officials calculated. 84 bears, with a bit of staff-related shinkage. My point was the bears were not 21-footed as presumed above.

It's fucking tragic.

This is what is called the "Anthropocene era".

We'll end up wiping out more species than that fucking asteroid.

sorry I just couldn't get the image out of my head

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It's fucking tragic.

This is what is called the "Anthropocene era".

We'll end up wiping out more species than that fucking asteroid.

time for the natives to wipe out the "THE BROWN ENVELOPE ERA" now that WOULD be TRAGIC.
HH.being an animal lover,i would love to see these bastards let loose in the jungle without their weapons.so they could have a taste of their own medicine.