"Police intercepted an attempt to smuggle 66 pangolins to Laos late Thursday night. Police stopped a pick-up truck at a road checkpoint on the bypass Chaiyaphum - Si Khiew Road at about 30 minutes after midnight. The pangolins were found in the truck.
Weerayuth Chaiyuth, 34 and Sakol Kham-ai, 26, were arrested.The two said they bought the pangolins from a Thai man at a petrol station in Nonthaburi for Bt5,000 each. The unidentified man smuggled the animals form the South. The two said they were transporting the pangolins to a Laotian man in Nongkhai and they would be paid Bt20,000 for each pangolin."
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingne...s-in-Chaiyaphum
Does anyone know what they do with these endangered Pangolins: are they pets or do they eat them ?
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Police rescue 66 Pangolins headed for Laos
Started by DOLLY, Feb 06 2009 04:31 PM
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 04:42 PM
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Does anyone know what they do with these endangered Pangolins: are they pets or do they eat them ?
The Chinese consider them a gourmet delicacy and their scales are also valued for medicinal purposes. No doubt, they were headed for China via Laos.
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 05:25 PM
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"Police intercepted an attempt to smuggle 66 pangolins to Laos late Thursday night. . . The pangolins were found in the truck
Good thing they were't Rohingyas. Lord knows what would have happened to them.
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 09:15 PM
QUOTE(UncleSam @ Feb 6 2009, 05:25 PM) 
Good thing they were't Rohingyas. Lord knows what would have happened to them.
Hehehe....
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Posted 07 February 2009 - 12:52 PM
QUOTE(Haloi @ Feb 6 2009, 04:42 PM)
The Chinese consider them a gourmet delicacy and their scales are also valued for medicinal purposes. No doubt, they were headed for China via Laos.
Wealthy Chinese Eating Wildlife into Extinction + Picture of Pangolin
