{"id":2145,"date":"2015-02-04T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:49:05","slug":"police-raid-tiger-temple-kanchanaburi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2145-police-raid-tiger-temple-kanchanaburi","title":{"rendered":"Police raid at Tiger Temple, Kanchanaburi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 tigers and protected bird species have been seized by the authorities at Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua, better known as the Tiger Temple in the province of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/cities\/kanchanaburi.php\">Kanchanaburi<\/a>. The police and Thai army operation followed\u00a0complaints saying\u00a0the temple is involved in illegal wildlife trade.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4799\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4799 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tiger-temple-thailand.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Temple Kanchanaburi\" width=\"639\" height=\"477\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi really a place for animal preservation ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, the police presented a search warrant to\u00a0a temple worker who refused to sign it, saying that he had no authority to do it\u00a0and that the head monk of the temple was in Bangkok for treatment. After this refusal, the authorities decided to enter the temple and begin to search it.<\/p>\n<p>They seized 38 hornbills and more than 100 tigers. The authorities also tried in vain to find two rare wolves that were previously caged in front of the temple.<\/p>\n<p>All hornbills and other protected birds\u00a0will be\u00a0sent to the research station on the wildlife of Khao Pratap Chang in Ratchaburi for nursery.<\/p>\n<p>Chatchai Sripaew, poaching enforcement officer, confirmed that all birds in the temple are protected species and that anyone raising these birds must have permit\u00a0delivered by\u00a0the authorities. This was not the case of Tiger Temple. He also said that the search and seizure made this morning was in response to complaints claiming\u00a0the temple was engaged in illegal wildlife trade.<\/p>\n<p>The 100 tigers present in the temple were impounded for recording, the time to check if the temple had official documents authorizing it\u00a0to raise them. The authorities continue to try to find the two missing wolves and will ask the temple toclarify\u00a0the circumstances of their disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>This did not start yesterday, the Tiger Temple in Kanachanaburi province has bad reputation for long. It was suspected of animal\u00a0abuse\u00a0and animal traffic trade with Laos. That is why on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Thailandee.com<\/em><\/a>, we decided not to mention among the temple among the attractions in\u00a0Kanchanaburi.<\/p>\n<p>We will see what the result of the investigation will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 tigers and protected bird species have been seized by the authorities at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}