 Tigers are in the news again. First, rare camera-trap footage released last week showed a three-legged victim of poaching, a female tiger, hopping through the jungles of western Thailand, eating domestic animals (and possibly attacking people too). Days later: an undercover bust of traffickers with tiger skins in the same region. To keep hope alive for the critically endangered big cat, authorities must now act on two levels.
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 (Bangkok)-- Today, Thai authorities confirmed the arrest of 3 suspects linked to the trafficking of
tigers and other endangered species following an undercover operation that ended yesterday in western Thailand. Officers from the Royal Thai Police and Department of National Parks collaborated, with support from Freeland, to identify suspects possessing and offering to sell skins of tigers, leopards, clouded leopards, and other endangered species. Undercover buyers lured the suspects to a location in Kanchanaburi province where the arrest of 4 men and seizure of wildlife body parts was made during the morning of Tuesday February 15 (yesterday).  (Bangkok)-- Today, Thai authorities confirmed the arrest of 3 suspects linked to the trafficking of
tigers and other endangered species following an undercover operation that ended yesterday in western Thailand. Officers from the Royal Thai Police and Department of National Parks collaborated, with support from Freeland, to identify suspects possessing and offering to sell skins of tigers, leopards, clouded leopards, and other endangered species. Undercover buyers lured the suspects to a location in Kanchanaburi province where the arrest of 4 men and seizure of wildlife body parts was made during the morning of Tuesday February 15 (yesterday).  BANGKOK — Forest rangers in western Thailand are searching a remote jungle on the Myanmar border hoping to rescue a wild tiger with a missing leg from an area where poachers have recently been operating.
Staff from the wildlife protection organization Freeland spotted the animal earlier this week on video recorded by a remotely operated camera trap in Kanchanaburi province’s Khao Laem National Park as it was feeding on the body of a water buffalo.  Authorities have been ordered to step up patrols in Kanchanaburi in order to prevent wildlife poaching in the province's protected areas. Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Varawut Silpa-archa said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered the move after officers at Khao Laem National Park found a tiger's paw in a snare near Pilokki village.
 Forest rangers in Western Thailand are searching a remote jungle on the Myanmar border hoping to rescue a wild tiger with a missing leg from an area where poachers have recently been operating. Staff from the wildlife protection organisation Freeland spotted the animal earlier this week on video recorded by a remotely operated camera trap in Kanchanaburi province’s Khao Laem National Park as it was feeding on the body of a water buffalo.
 A Indochinese tiger missing its right back leg, photographed recently by a camera trap eating a dead buffalo in forest inside Khao Laem National Park in Kanchanaburi, near where a Karen man was badly mauled when attacked by three tigers late last month.
 at 3:00 p.m. February 8, 2022 Mr. Niphon Chamnongsirisak Director of the Office of Conservation Area 3 (Ban Pong) revealed that according to the order of Mr. Warawut Silpa-archa, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Mr. Jatuporn Burusphat, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, and Mr. Thanya Netithamkul, Director-General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation to take care of safety. In the story of tigers for the villagers of Pilokki and help preserve and restore tiger population in the forest of Thailand to last forever.
 Camera trap successfully installed! The Department of National Parks found evidence of "Tiger Krong" attacking Pilokki villagers. after secretly eating a buffalo carcass Found a deformed tiger with a broken right leg. Prepare to find a way to catch them in a safe area. Progress in the case of a tiger biting people at Pilok Kee Village, Thong Pha Phum District, Kanchanaburi Province, has caused the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation to with the Freeland Foundation Installed 20 camera traps from Feb 4-7 in the past. to follow the tiger.
 On February 8, Mr. Niphon Chamnongsirisak Director of the Office of Conservation Area 3 (Ban Pong) revealed that he had received a report from Prime Minister Kamalas Issa-ad, head of Khao Laem National Park. about the problem of tigers attacking villagers who go to feed the buffalo Ban Huai Samatho forest area has ordered the officials of Khao Laem National Park Organize a tiger surveillance kit that may enter the area and also coordinated with the Freeland Foundation with the officials of Khao Laem National Park Install 20 camera traps to track tigers in the forest area. From 4-7 Feb. ago
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