Illegal wildlife found at the Chamber in Phnom Penh
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A police raid on the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia uncovered a cache of illegal wildlife parts and live animals, a report said yesterday.
The haul included 19 clouded leopard skins, leopard claws, 10 otterskins, two tiger skins and animal bones and horns.
Police also found three live long-tailed macaques and several tortoises and turtles, The Cambodia Daily reported.
“The suspect Chinese men have been sent to the Forestry Administration in Phnom Penh for questioning and court processing, but I do not yet know what will happen to them,” said Wuthy Ravong, a project manager at the Wildlife Alliance, a non-governmental organisation that helped with the raid.
Exotic animal parts are prized in mainland China for use in traditional medicines or as status symbols.
