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Vietnam police indict man for exchanging tiger remains

Vietnam police indict man for exchanging tiger remains

Friday, August 22, 2014, 18:44 GMT+7

Police in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province initiated legal proceedings against a man on Thursday after he was caught delivering tiger remains, which had been transported from the north in an ambulance, to another person last week.

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The man, Le Xuan Xanh, 45, was arrested on August 11 when he was giving a dead tiger – with only its hide and skeleton left – and a tiger skeleton to another man in Dong Nai’s Bien Hoa City. The hide and skeleton weighed 69kg while the other skeleton weighed only 11kg. Xanh had carried the tiger remains in an ambulance from Ha Tinh Province in the north to Dong Nai’s Thong Nhat District and then hired a 12-seat van to take them to Bien Hoa.     He failed to show any documents to prove the origin of the tiger remains. Police said Xanh had been hired by a man in Ha Tinh to transport the remains to Bien Hoa for delivery. Xanh has been charged with “breaching regulations on the protection of precious and rare wild animals” pursuant to Article 190 of the Penal Code, police said.  Police are expanding their investigation to track down others involved in the case. Tigers are one of many endangered species that need to be protected all over the world.

The main reasons tigers become endangered are illegal hunting for their pelts, meat and body parts (often for use in folk medicine), and loss of their natural habitat from illegal logging and deforestation.

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