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Wildlife trade,Tachilek, Myanmar
Veterinarian Apasorn Pratyakup of the Thai Society for the Conservation of Wild Animals examines a fresh leopard skin (Panthera pardus)
Tachilek is a small town on the Thai/Myanmar border. The town has a thriving market with a large number of stalls and shops specializing in wildlife trophies and medicinal products made from: Skins, bones and body parts of tiger, leopard, clouded leopard and several small cat species, deer, wild cattle, wild boar, primates and birds. Poached throughout the Indochina region, much of the produce bought here is smuggled across the border into Thailand.
Veterinarian Apasorn Pratyakup of the Thai Society for the Conservation of Wild Animals examines a fresh leopard skin (Panthera pardus)
Tachilek is a small town on the Thai/Myanmar border. The town has a thriving market with a large number of stalls and shops specializing in wildlife trophies and medicinal products made from: Skins, bones and body parts of tiger, leopard, clouded leopard and several small cat species, deer, wild cattle, wild boar, primates and birds. Poached throughout the Indochina region, much of the produce bought here is smuggled across the border into Thailand.
