AR-News: (Thailand) WWF: Much explaining to be done

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Published on Feb 27, 2004 

Thailand has much explaining to do ahead of the CITES (Convention on 
International Trade in Endangered Species) conference to be held in Bangkok in 
October, from the suspicious discovery of more than 100 orang-utans at a private zoo 
to the continued sale of ivory products at some Bangkok hotels. 
"Failure to present clear reports on these subjects of concern may lead to 
punishment by CITES-member countries," Robert Mather, the representative of the 
World Wildlife Fund in Thailand, said yesterday. 
He said CITES had already slapped Thailand with sanctions on international 
floral and fauna trade once before, in 1991. The damage caused by the sanctions 
was estimated to range from hundreds of millions of baht to as much as Bt4 
billion.





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