Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
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Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
They got busted. Don't worry, I'm sure there are still many other shops just like it still open in Cambodia.
Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team raided a shop in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district on Thursday, finding specimens of 14 rare and endangered species that the shop was embalming in rice wine, which it touted as a medicinal elixir.
“The 14 kinds of wild animals were stuffed into jars full of wine and traditional medicine,” said one Wildlife Alliance officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Three slow lorises and a king cobra were forced alive into the medicine jars full of alcohol and died a slow, painful death by asphyxiation.”
In addition to the cobra and lorises, jars of wine were found containing sun bear, hoe deer and serow – a type of wild cattle – among other species. The wine itself was being sold for $80 per 250 millilitres, the officer said.
The shop’s owner, he added, had said he was unaware it was illegal to sell the animals and the products made from them, but was fined $2,500 nonetheless.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the body that assesses the level of threat to animal species, hog deer are endangered, having experienced a “past reduction [in population] of 50 per cent or greater in three generations”. The sun bear, king cobra and the slow loris are all vulnerable – one level removed from endangered – and populations for all three species are trending downward.
While some of the animals discovered in last week’s raid had been killed and dismembered before being placed in the jars, Wildlife Alliance said, others had been put in alive.
According to the group’s website, the four-metre cobra had its.....
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Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team raided a shop in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district on Thursday, finding specimens of 14 rare and endangered species that the shop was embalming in rice wine, which it touted as a medicinal elixir.
“The 14 kinds of wild animals were stuffed into jars full of wine and traditional medicine,” said one Wildlife Alliance officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Three slow lorises and a king cobra were forced alive into the medicine jars full of alcohol and died a slow, painful death by asphyxiation.”
In addition to the cobra and lorises, jars of wine were found containing sun bear, hoe deer and serow – a type of wild cattle – among other species. The wine itself was being sold for $80 per 250 millilitres, the officer said.
The shop’s owner, he added, had said he was unaware it was illegal to sell the animals and the products made from them, but was fined $2,500 nonetheless.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the body that assesses the level of threat to animal species, hog deer are endangered, having experienced a “past reduction [in population] of 50 per cent or greater in three generations”. The sun bear, king cobra and the slow loris are all vulnerable – one level removed from endangered – and populations for all three species are trending downward.
While some of the animals discovered in last week’s raid had been killed and dismembered before being placed in the jars, Wildlife Alliance said, others had been put in alive.
According to the group’s website, the four-metre cobra had its.....
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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/‘medicine’-shop-raided
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
Oh man I love those things, tasty, soft, not chewy and just superb.
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
You'd need a pretty decent jar to fit a sun bear in.
Lucky Supermarket?
Lucky Supermarket?
Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
They sell this stuff everywhere in Cambodia.
To be honest.......to me the best cobra is a pickled cobra.
To be honest.......to me the best cobra is a pickled cobra.
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht
In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht
In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
Yeah, I'd second that.
When I was a kid snakes were to be killed, and I killed many. A bit later in life I tried to empathise with them a little, plus the wussy government in Oz made it illegal to kill them.
Anyway, one day in Yulara (Central Oz) I was walking around a little grass oval - probably the largest chunk of grass for at least a 400km radius.
I stopped dead in my tracks as something didn't seem right about the stick I was about to step on. It was a Western Brown and it reared about knee high ready to strike me, we're talking less than a foot away. My heart was pounding so hard in my chest, and for that slow motion moment, I thought what the hell should I do? I backed off really slowly and to my immense relief the snake slithered off.
Yulara is a tiny little tourist town near Ayers Rock (Uluru) and the nearest hospital is in Alice Springs roughly 450km away. I went there about once a month over a 4 year period as I worked about 120kms away. If the snake had bitten me, firstly I would have had to get back to my car and then to the Medical Centre (no anti-venom) and then got the Royal Flying Doctor to Alice Springs - only trouble would be that it would need to fly the 450km to get there first.
So if you wanna scare yourself, try that scenario.
Since then, I would have no hesitation killing them illegal or not.
When I was a kid snakes were to be killed, and I killed many. A bit later in life I tried to empathise with them a little, plus the wussy government in Oz made it illegal to kill them.
Anyway, one day in Yulara (Central Oz) I was walking around a little grass oval - probably the largest chunk of grass for at least a 400km radius.
I stopped dead in my tracks as something didn't seem right about the stick I was about to step on. It was a Western Brown and it reared about knee high ready to strike me, we're talking less than a foot away. My heart was pounding so hard in my chest, and for that slow motion moment, I thought what the hell should I do? I backed off really slowly and to my immense relief the snake slithered off.
Yulara is a tiny little tourist town near Ayers Rock (Uluru) and the nearest hospital is in Alice Springs roughly 450km away. I went there about once a month over a 4 year period as I worked about 120kms away. If the snake had bitten me, firstly I would have had to get back to my car and then to the Medical Centre (no anti-venom) and then got the Royal Flying Doctor to Alice Springs - only trouble would be that it would need to fly the 450km to get there first.
So if you wanna scare yourself, try that scenario.
Since then, I would have no hesitation killing them illegal or not.
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
I've yet to try that stuff (except the thimble full they give you on tours to floating villages, etc).Francis wrote:They sell this stuff everywhere in Cambodia.
To be honest.......to me the best cobra is a pickled cobra.
You supposed to eat the snake, like a tequila worm or what?
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
Don't know........but I URGE you NOT to try it........who knows what is in and who knows the possible outcomes. I just know one thing: even Cambodians refuse to drink that shit.General Mackevili wrote: You supposed to eat the snake, like a tequila worm or what?
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht
In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht
In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
good advice!
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Re: Rare and Endangered Animals Sold in Phnom Penh
Hello, can you tell me where to find Snake wine in Phnom Penh now ? Or anywhere else ?
Thanks.
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If someone has spotted it lately please tell me.
ONLY MONKEYS THINK THAT I AM NOT LIVING IN CAMBODIA BECAUSE I USE VPNs and PROXIES.
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