Poachers shoot and mutilate elephant

[PeteC]

This is getting close to home for you down there. Perhaps time to do what they do in Africa, arm the rangers with shoot to kill authority concerning poachers. Pete

Poachers shoot and mutilate elephant

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... e-elephant

* Published: 22/10/2010 at 12:00 AM
* Newspaper section: News

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN : Poachers have shot dead a male elephant and hacked its face to dig out its tusks.

Kui Buri National Park chief Boonlue Poonnil said yesterday that forest rangers saw two men slashing something in deep jungle in Sam Roi Yot district on Wednesday night. The men fled after spotting the rangers.

Authorities investigating the scene found the carcass of a male elephant aged from five to 10 years.

The jumbo was shot in the head and its face and trunk chopped in pieces, the park chief said. The poachers failed to remove the tusks.

Prachuap Khiri Khan governor Veera Sriwattanatrakul said the attack shocked officials.

The park is one of Thailand's most pristine forests with more than 200 wild elephants, gaurs, banteng and tigers.

[BaaBaa.]

FFS, a symbol of Thailand, a new low.

[sandman67]

remember that the man who instituted the shoot to kill/bounty on poachers heads policy in Kenya (cant remember his name but Richard Keely comes to mind) was eventually sacked and his name dragged through the mud for doing it, despite the fact it worked and the park rangers supported him. I saw a documentary on him and the Kenyan govt destroyed his reputation....he ended up working elsewhere.

I fully support shoot to kill on poachers...and this is why.

uttery bloody shameful....but you can bet theres a Chinese ivory and medicine gang at the other end.

[richard]

In Zimbabwe poachers were often police or army guys earning a few extra dollars.

Did bump into a poacher hunter unit in Zim whilst out walking the bush. Our guide met them and returned to say they had blood on their hands and were Zim army personnel