U.S. authorities arrested a top Cambodian wildlife official yesterday on his way to a global wildlife trade summit in Panama. He was detained in New York at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Kry is a deputy director at the Cambodian Forestry Administration, within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Omaliss Keo, 58, the director general of the forestry administration was also indicted, as were six others affiliated with Vanny Resource Holdings—an animal-breeding company with operations in Hong Kong and Cambodia that supplies the United States with research animals.
Around the same time the arrest occurred yesterday, Dany Chheang, deputy director general of Cambodia’s forestry administration, was speaking withabout long-tailed macaques and their possible illegal export from Cambodia at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora conference—the summit his colleague Kry was en route to attend.
“Macaque farming is successful for conservation,” Chheang said, and “if it weren’t for captive breeding, these animals would have disappeared long ago.”
Save the critters
Born free Live free.....
Ooh look, another old politician trying to be human
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Glad he was caught!
Cruel
As someone that owns a macaque, I find this disgusting that some countries treat them like vermin.
Huskies
Not acceptable
titanic.
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