The cub was seized by police of Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division on Wednesday, during a sting operation to catch Thais who had been selling wild animals via Facebook. Posing as buyers, the so-called Green cops arranged a rendezvous with the illegal wildlife traders at Central WestGate mall in Nonthaburi just north of Bangkok. There, they arrested three men and seized the four-month-old tiger cub from them. Police said the suspects confessed one of them had smuggled the cub from Laos over a natural border for the two other suspects to sell online for 400,000 baht. The department handed the cub to Buengchawak Wildlife Sanctuary to nurse it back to health.

Source: The Nation Bangkok April 09, 2022 12:08 UTC