Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 16:18:43 GMT 7
Scandalous - just scandalous.
www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/11/18/camera-trap-helps-catch-tiger-poachers-in-thailand.html
Published November 18, 2015 FoxNews.com
WCS helped identify this poached tiger through camera traps that showed its unique stripe pattern. WCS experts ID the animal as a female photographed Huai Kha Khaeng (HKK) Wildlife Sanctuary. (WCS/Government of Thailand)
Police in Thailand nabbed several tiger poachers, thanks to evidence that turned up on a camera trap.
It all started when tiger skins and body parts were found at a police checkpoint in Mae Sot District in Western Thailand.
Authorities along with experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society then went back to images that had been collected on camera traps from the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, where they suspected the tiger might have come from. Alas, they found that the pattern on a female tiger caught on camera with her cubs matched that of the confiscated tiger skin........continues
www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/11/18/camera-trap-helps-catch-tiger-poachers-in-thailand.html
Published November 18, 2015 FoxNews.com
WCS helped identify this poached tiger through camera traps that showed its unique stripe pattern. WCS experts ID the animal as a female photographed Huai Kha Khaeng (HKK) Wildlife Sanctuary. (WCS/Government of Thailand)
Police in Thailand nabbed several tiger poachers, thanks to evidence that turned up on a camera trap.
It all started when tiger skins and body parts were found at a police checkpoint in Mae Sot District in Western Thailand.
Authorities along with experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society then went back to images that had been collected on camera traps from the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, where they suspected the tiger might have come from. Alas, they found that the pattern on a female tiger caught on camera with her cubs matched that of the confiscated tiger skin........continues
