Rescued Leopards and Bear Cub at Bangkok's Suvarnabumi Airport

Two Spotted Leopards and a Asiatic Sun Bear cub found in a passenger's luggage at Bangkok's Suvarnabumi International Airport, May 13th, 2011. The passenger was illegally transporting the baby animals from Thailand to the UAE. The suspect was caught in a sting by Thai's nature crime police. For more information about the fight to stop wildlife trafficking visit www.freeland.org.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Leopard
• Bear
• Wildlife
• Trafficking
• Thailand
• UAE

[FREELANDfoundation]

The mothers of this cubs are definitely captive ones.

[karteekpulapaka]

an example of dwindling human values the most basic ones! appalling, heartbreaking & outrageous. heard on pbs that these were released into a national park and are being well protected.

[FREELANDfoundation]

@karteekpulapaka These cubs are now under governmental wildlife care centres. Releasing them to the wild will never happen since they are not from the wild, but farm. Even with the wild ones, reintroduction to the wild is still not taking place easily especially for big cats.

[tiggerums]

Glad they've been saved. Wish we could stop this cruel trade now!!!!!

[purplecrush04]

That is horrible! Shows one of the many ugly faces of human nature! This is much worse than human trafficking!

[shiboof]

Much like elephants the mothers were probably slaughtered or are in a situation much like a puppy farm. Appalling for all of these little ones. No punishment is good enough. I like to think that the people doing this will meet their end in a forest somewhere by a wild animal. I can hope.

[siirizi]

omg... )=

[carlaevporter]

I want to know what happened to the mothers of these baby animals. Are they wild? Or captive animals? Dead or alive?

[SnowLeopardPunisher]

Retirés de leur milieu naturel si jeune,juste pour le plaisir de personnes de en mal d'exotisme,ces mêmes personnes qui fréquentent les cirques et zoos...ce monde est d'une tristesse...