Vendors at a market in Thailand’s jap Trat province deny that monitor lizard meat is being bought there. This information comes after two suspects arrested in the central Suphan Buri province claimed that the reptile meat was bought to markets in Trat alongside the Thai-Cambodian border.
Reporters from ThaiRath visited the Bo Phloi municipal recent market in Trat’s Bo Rai district and located no monitor lizard meat for sale. Chicken, pork, beef and dry items were bought to shoppers.
One pork trader and director of the market, Supis Tiengthaisong, stated there isn’t a report of any service provider in the market selling monitor lizard meat. Almost everyone within the district eats pork, beef, and rooster, he mentioned.
Supis said, however, that he was not certain whether monitor lizard meat was on sale at other markets along the border since he had by no means inspected them.
A Cambodian vegetable vendor within the district, Chu, also informed the reporters that Cambodians do not favour monitor lizard meat, preferring to consume pork, beef, and hen, similar to Thais.
Underground arrested the 2 suspects in Suphan Buri for trafficking protected animals on Wednesday. The authorities seized over a hundred carcasses of monitor lizards and turtles, making the biggest number on report.
Authorities from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division, or Greencop, and U-Thong Police Station were notified that a house proprietor, later recognized as 73 year outdated Mon Nerajatee, was illegally disassembling and buying and selling protected water screens and turtles..