Police raid a property and find packaged water monitors being illegally farmed and sold in Sam Ngam district, Phichit province, on Sunday. (Photos supplied)
PICHIT: Police and wildlife officials raided a property illegally farming water monitors and macaques and found many giant lizards tied-up and readied for export.
Officials searched Khemawat Farm in Moo 9 village of tambon Noen Por of Sam Ngam district on Sunday and busted the illegal operation.
Pol Maj Gen Mana Kleepsatbut, commander of the National Resources and Environmental Crime Division, said on Monday the property was formerly a pig farm. But on Sunday they found macaques and water monitors being raised there for sale. Both are protected animals.
Farm attendants Wang Jahan and Anant Sripha initially tried to stall police, locking the farm…
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