(Vietnam) Wild animal slaughterhouse busted/Smugglers arrested

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Illegal wild animal slaughterhouse busted in HCMC

Thanh Nien News

September 25, 2006

 

The Ho Chi Minh City Forest Management Department swooped down on a

slaughterhouse in Thu Duc District Friday and seized hundreds of kilograms of

wild animals allegedly destined for city-based restaurants.

 

Coordinating with Thanh Nien correspondents who had played an important role in

exposing the slaughterhouse, the municipal forest management department snapped

into a swift search of the wild-meat abattoir Friday.

 

Initially, the owners blocked the door of the establishment in the district’s

Linh Trung ward.

 

But after two hours of negotiations and a search warrant, the slaughterhouse

owner relented.

 

The agents seized two refrigerators and around 100kg of wild boar, 50kg of

muntjac [a small deer], 20kg of java mouse-deer, and 13kg of porcupine.

 

Reported by Hoai Nam – Translated by An Dien

 

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Wild animal smugglers stopped in their tracks

Thanh Nien News

October 8, 2006

 

A check stop in northern Vietnam uncovered a large cache of wild animal parts in

a truck including 11 elephant tusks, while hundreds of kilograms of animals were

seized in the south yesterday.

 

Traffic police in the northern province Thanh Hoa Saturday morning searched the

truck carrying the elephant tusks, and found 22 tiger teeth, 6 bear galls and 4

tiger skulls.

 

The smuggler fled the scene, but the contraband was retrieved and brought to the

provincial investigation agency.

 

On the same day, HCMC police seized a 108kg haul of iguanas, snakes, turtles,

weasels, mouse deer, pangolin, monkeys, and wild boars in the city’s Thu Duc

district.

 

According to the initial investigation, Nguyen Tri Dung and Dao Van Lang, aged

26 and 19, respectively, confessed that a large part of the wild goods belonged

to Nguyen Minh Tiem in neighboring Binh Phuoc province.

 

HCMC authorities last month also swooped down on a slaughterhouse in Thu Duc

District and seized hundreds of kilograms of wild animals allegedly destined for

city-based restaurants.

 

Source: Thanh Nien – Translated by Luu Thi Hong

 

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Central Vietnam province seizes biggest-ever haul of wild animals

Thanh Nien News

October 23, 2006

 

In the biggest-ever haul of smuggled wild animals in Quang Nam province, police

on Monday seized 344.5kg of endangered animals aboard a bus en route to northern

Vietnam.

 

At 3:30pm, police stopped a bus traveling north and discovered 19 sacks of wild

animals, including 204.5kg of rare snakes, 97.5kg of turtles, 9.5 of tortoises,

24kg of salamanders, and 5kg of iguanas.

 

The bus owner and driver, Dang Van Phuong, 39, confessed that the animals

belonged to a man who had hired him to carry them from Ho Chi Minh City in the

south to the northern border province of Lang Son.

 

The 39 travelers onboard the bus were put on a different coach to continue their

journey to Hanoi.

 

Early this month, Ho Chi Minh City police seized a 108kg haul of iguanas,

snakes, turtles, weasels, mouse deer, pangolin, monkeys, and wild boars.

 

Reported by Ho Trong – Translated by Luu Thi Hong

 

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