Asaree Thaitrakulpanich
Khao Sod English
BANGKOK — A forestry official was sacked from his job Monday after the director-general of the Forestry Department saw his posts bragging about jungle cats, mongooses and other wild animals he has killed.
Chakkrit Cheenpet, a forest ranger in Kamphaeng Phet province’s protected Mae Raka Forest, was fired after he was discovered killing the very animals he was tasked with protecting in a leaked cache of photographs taken by hunters and illegal poachers earlier this month.
Chakkrit was called in Monday to explain to forestry higher-ups photos of rare and protected animals – all dead – he had posted in a private Facebook group.
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