(Original title: Thailand's "Evil Tiger" fled and followed!) Farmers illegally raise lions and tigers without permission! Arrested now! ）
A few days ago, a baby tiger escaped from the local Bang Wua lane residential area in Bakong County, Chachoengsao Province, Thailand, causing panic among the people, and the police urgently dealt with it, and finally temporarily detained the tiger cub at the police station, and then launched a detailed investigation into where it came from. (News review: There are "evil tigers" in residential areas in Thailand who fled in the middle of the night to cause panic!) ）
According to the latest reports from a number of Thai media, through the Chachoengsao police coordinated with the staff of the Thai National Park Wildlife Conservation Department to conduct a detailed investigation, it was found that the tiger cub came from Bang Khla Farm in Chachoengsao Province, and the Thai Farm Owner's Education Department of the farm went to the police station to claim it after seeing the news. He told the police that the tiger cub was a tiger cub that he had "painted" to resemble a tiger because it was going to be sent to a movie, and that he said the tiger cub had been purchased from the Thai border, and that the police were skeptical of his testimony.
The staff then went to the farm to investigate and found that the farm had a legal operating licence but no licence to import or possess tigers. The police then ordered the farm to close, temporarily seized the wild animals in the farm, and also seized a tiger cub (5 months old) and a lion cub (2 months old) at the scene, and the farmer will be prosecuted and punished in accordance with the law.
Thai media said that the reason why the above-mentioned farmer's education department claimed that the lost tiger cub was a lion tiger was obviously to avoid legal consequences. Since the liger is a hybrid offspring of a lion and a tiger, it is not a protected species in Thailand; To keep tigers in Thailand, their owners must obtain a license that allows them to be imported or held.
Thai media also added that statistics as of May 2024 show that a total of 291 lions have been reported to be legally bred across Thailand, and a total of 15 lions and tigers have been raised in Thailand, which are currently kept in the Lion King Zoo in Ayutthaya, Thailand, the Hua Hin Safari Park in Bashu and the private lion park in Bangkok of Thai politician Asawi.