Police in the southern province of Dong Nai have detained three people after catching them illegally trading two tiger skeletons at a local dog-meat eatery on Monday.
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Le Xuan Xanh, 45, Cao Xuan Hong, 34, and Nguyen Van Nghi, 38, were arrested at 9:00 pm on August 11 after police caught Xanh and Hong selling two tiger skeletons to Nghi at his Ninh Binh dog-meat eatery on Vo Thi Sau Street in Dong Nai’s Bien Hoa City.
Nghi is a local man while the two sellers hail from the central province of Nghe An.
The three people have 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 seized from them two tiger skeletons, one of which weighed 69kg and the other 20kg.
Xanh and Hong told investigators that they had transported the skeletons by car from a northern province to Dong Nai to sell to Nghi.
Police are expanding their investigation into the case and have summoned six other people allegedly involved in the trade for questioning.
Many similar offences have occurred recently in different localities in Vietnam.
On November 7, 2013, police in central Ha Tinh Province arrested a local man, Nguyen Khanh Thuyet, for illegally cooking tiger bones to make tiger bone paste at home.
While searching the house, police found one tiger hide, a set of claws possibly of a tiger, and the head of a chamois (an endangered species) placed in a freezer.
Tiger bone paste is one of the rarest and most expensive products used in traditional medicine.
On January 1, 2013, forest protection officers in Nghe An seized a live tiger that had been illegally kept in captivity in the house of a local resident.
Le Van Dat, the house’s owner, failed to show any documents related to the tiger, which weighed about 200kg.
Tigers are one of many endangered species that need to be protected all over the world.
The main reasons tigers are endangered – in most cases, critically – are illegal hunting for their pelts, meat and body parts (often for use in folk medicine), and loss of their natural habitat from logging and deforestation.
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