Anyone here interested in helping save endangered species?

[charleyboy]

Big Boy... I'm pretty sure that if Mr Wieks had been advertising on this forum, you and others would have been "singing his praises."

You and your little "clique" have taken over this forum and I'm pretty sure that many people who would like to post, don't post!

I've got 3,000 thousand posts, aren't I fantastic!...More like 3,000 drivels.

Get a life!

[Big Boy]

Thank you very much for those few kind words.

[charleyboy]

[Mod Edit]

charleyboy,

I am suspending you for this post which I have removed, and the post on another thread flaming against other forum members, pending Admin review in the morning. Hopefully, you will have calmed down by then.

[Big Boy]

charleyboy,

Your posts from early this morning have been reviewed by Admin. A decision has been made to Suspend you from this forum until 17 March 2012.

[Roel]

A brave man:

http://www.wfft.org/wildlife-trade/day-5-dnp-raid/

[Vital Spark]

God, that makes my blood boil.

This man is an absolute saint, and he should be commended for what he is doing, not harassed. I dread to think where the animals which he and his team have lovingly cared for are going to end up. It must be heartbreaking.

VS

[RoboCop]

I wonder if the OP and the Mr. Wieks are colleagues or close friends? I find most of your comments quite distasteful towards a brave young lad with a big heart. If any on you are actually interested in CHANGING the state of the ecosystems in the surrounding area of the city in which you reside I suggest you go offline and DO something a bit more constructive with your time than belittling a man who seems to have been alienated off of this forum by rude posters. I would have to side with 'big boy' and this nature savior fellow on this subject no matter how impossible his pursuit may be, I find it to be a noble quest he's partaking on and deserves a bit of admiration and a little less condemnation from people here IF you really want to help save endangered wild life like Mr.Wieks and this so called one man army nature savior. It seems Mr.Wieks also started as ONE MAN army as well in his younger years if u do your research....

[TingTongJohn]

Its all well and good as in the hopes of the OP and his goals. But if he/she is not Thai maybe they should be starting this quest closer to home(Place of birth) Then expand his horizons to Thailand. Once he or she has some sort of track record then just trying to change something they may not know anything about. As in laws and rules of government and the correct route that would prove attainable.

[Roel]

The battle goes on:

PHUKET: A Dutch-born wildlife activist has filed defamation charges against top-ranking Thai officials of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for claiming his shelter in Petchaburi was involved in the torture and trade of protected wildlife species.

The charges are the latest salvo in the battle between the DNP and the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT), whose shelter was subjected to an eight-day DNP raid a month ago that saw 103 animals removed – purportedly for lack of correct paperwork.

Mr Wiek told the Phuket Gazette that he was absolutely certain the raids were motivated out of revenge for comments Mr Wiek made about the DNP and the illegal elephant trade in Thailand.

Asked if he feared that any of the primates seized may end up as testing “guinea pigs” at the newly-established National Primate Research Center in Saraburi, Mr Wiek said he was confident that all of the confiscated animals would eventually have to be returned “because all of the paperwork is in order”.

However, Mr Wiek said yesterday that the DNP had so far returned only four animals to the sanctuary.

“Of 99 animals still held by the DNP, 21 were born at our facility,” he said.

“They received letters acknowledging the births, but then they never came here to mark them or complete the registration process properly, such as by implanting them with microchips. They have actually neglected their job,” he said.

The DNP, citing economic constraints, never carried through on a 2003 ministerial regulation requiring animals registered with them during the 2003 “amnesty period” to be micro-chipped, he added.

As current chair of the WFFT board, Mr Wiek’s wife, Jansaeng Sangnanork, was arrested during the raids.

“They really wanted me, but she took the hit because she can never be kicked out of the country. That’s why the DNP is so angry, because now the fight is against a 34-year-old Thai woman crying on television, not a bald fat Dutch guy with a big mouth,” he said.

The WFFT has already filed defamation charges against some top-level DNP officials and is preparing to do the same against the DNP Director General Damrong Phidet, he revealed.

“The case against him is a bit more complicated, but he made a few remarks that were completely unfounded. He is going to go down for this, but we will handle his case in the same professional way we deal with the others,” said Mr Wiek.

The raid on the WFFT shelter and the recent raid on the compound of a notorious wildlife trader in Saraburi highlights the double standards in the way the DNP is currently run, he said.

In the raid on the Saraburi trader, the owner told DNP officials he needed five days to compile the paperwork. None of the animals were removed from the compound, even though the facility was not registered as a private zoo and the owner had a previous conviction for illegal possession of protected species, Mr Wiek said.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/a ... 12583.html

And even protests in front of the Thai Embassy in London and the handing over of a 53,000+ signature petition.
http://www.wfft.org/wildlife-general/pr ... t-of-wfft/

Now the question is of course:
Will it lead to anything good or will at the end of the day a Thai untouchable pull a few strings in order to silence this annoying interference with business.

[apinansukpeng]

If it's on weekends I'm in