{"id":4049,"date":"2012-03-08T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:39","slug":"cell-phone-tiger-poachers-get-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-tiger-poachers-get-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone tiger poachers get jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tiger.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2672\" title=\"Amur Tiger\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tiger.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2672 lazyload\" title=\"Amur Tiger\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tiger.jpg\"><\/a>A major turning point has been reached in Asia\u2019s war against poaching, with jail time being given to Thailand\u2019s infamous \u2018cell phone\u2019 tiger poachers.  The two poachers have received up to five years behind bars, one of the most severe sentences that have ever been given out for poaching in Thailand, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The two poachers were both found guilty on the 19th of last month following a lengthy trial and received stiff sentences, with one of the pair, Thai Hmong, getting five years in jail and the other, a Vietnamese citizen, being handed a four year sentence, the most severe penalties for wildlife poaching that have ever been given in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The case received worldwide attention in 2011 when authorities confiscated an old cell phone that turned out to contain photographs of a dead tiger, the striping pattern of which matched that of a tiger that was being tracked by conservationists from WCS in the Western Forest Complex in Thailand.  While the poachers claimed the animal had been shot in neighboring Myanmar, the stripes, which are as unique as a fingerprint, showed otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>\u201cThe jail sentences show that Thailand is serious about stopping poaching of its wildlife,\u201d says the executive director for Asia programs with the WCS, Joe Walston.  \u201cWCS commends the dedicated park guards and enforcement personnel who made this conviction a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major turning point has been reached in Asia\u2019s war against poaching, with jail time being given to Thailand\u2019s infamous \u2018cell phone\u2019 tiger poachers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - 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