THAILAND

Shots in the park threaten nation's endangered species

Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 10/02/2013

» It was the shooting of the cat-sized krachong (mouse deer) that really made Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn angry. He and a team of park officials had just arrested a group of illegal hunters who had shot the krachong for sport, along with more than 100 rare giant Asian river frogs, in November of last year inside the park.