News Forum - Woman arrested for keeping protected birds as pets

[Thaiger]

A woman in the southern province of Chumphon faces up to five years in jail and a fine of up to 500,000 baht for keeping 37 protected birds as pets without permission. The woman insisted that she did not buy or obtain the birds illegally, the birds came to her of their own free will so decided to care for them. Officers from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division, otherwise known as Greencop, received a complaint from an anonymous person about the illegal possession of protected birds at a house in the Baan Na sub-district of Chumphon. The officers […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

Just take the birds to the nearest bush and let them free. If the birds go back to her on their own as per her claim, then she can be proven innocent. In the court of law people has to be proven innocent before being declared as guilty. 

[Smiler]

Just throw away the key, Buddhists are supposed to respect all forms of life I see little proof of that.

[GarthHundson]

just free the birds, they look stunning when they fly!