Trafficking of wildlife and girls into Thailand still is rampant

[Guest guest]

Kenyan and Australian Governments taken

for a ride by unscrupulous Thai officials

Wildlife trade is business as usual for the taker societies on this

planet.

 

 

WTN - Canberra / Nairobi / Bangkok - 09 March 2005

 

Of the over two million citations the internet holds for the northern

Thailand city of Chian Mai nearly 100.000 contain the word sex and

more than 50.000 hits describe or decry the horrible situation

concerning prostitution, especially child prostitution and

pornography.

 

Children, often stolen from the traditionally living hill tribes

(see: http://www.akha.org) or bought from other impoverished

communities, are as innocent as the many hundreds of non-human

creatures, which Thailand wants now to capture from the wild in

Africa and Australia - not for the welfare of these animals, but for

an exhibitionistic venture, which the city of Chiang Mai wants to

present to its kick-hungry citizens and rich visitors in a perverse

Night-Safari termed zoo and entertainment facility.

 

Sex and drugs seem to be not enough any more to animate the folks.

Not only is Thailand now opening its prison doors to paying watchers,

who get exited by seeing the inmates fight in kick-boxing, but -

following a sick example from Singapore - they want the paying

spectators to get lured into a pseudo-zoo by presenting " the wild

beasts from Africa?during a Night-Safari, whereby it can not be

ruled out that also the producers of sex-with-animals pornographic

websites, which often have their origin in Thailand, are part to the

scam. Powerful investment circles in Thailand tried since 2002 to

purchase enough wildlife for this Chiang Mai zoo project in order to

have least 55 different species from Africa and Asia to show off. The

usual buying failed and the project faced from its onset strong

opposition from local residents and environmental groups around the

globe likewise.

 

AT THE CORE

 

But, " the show must go on " , seems to be the policy at Chiang Mai, for

its godfather, the Prime Minister, its public officers and its

business managers. As chairman of the national committee overseeing

that zoo project, and insisting that the project would go ahead by

all means, one man is at the core of it all: Dr. Plodprasop Suraswadi

(alias Suraswadee). Being a rare mixture between a cat with many

lives and a chameleon, in terms of his professional career and his

connections respectively, which range from Her Majesty the Queen of

Thailand, via Thai government officials through often smoke-screen-

providing IUCN and WWF contacts to those, who like to be his partners

in every shady deal, as long as it brings money, Suraswadi is known

and sometimes feared for his stubbornness once he has set himself a

task.

 

A 1979 graduate of Oregon State University and equipped with a PhD

from the University of Alberta, Plodprasop started off his

governmental work with the Thai Department of Fisheries, where he

learned that exploitation of nature can provide officials of

ministries with big bucks. He was moved through Agriculture, where he

implemented land reforms for the sake of the rich, to Forestry, where

he had his biggest problems so far and from where he was more or less

dismissed. He then fell up the ladder to become the Permanent

Secretary of the Thai Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment,

where he was entrapped in the largest tiger trading scandal of the

last 100 years. An intervention from above, however, ensured again

that he was not dropped. It was finally arranged that Suraswadi

became the Adviser to Deputy PM Suwat Liptapanlop, from where he now

can mastermind all his former ministerial dockets and, having always

a good nose for big-time money, he became also the Tsunami response

coordinator as soon the wave and the global rescue-funds had hit his

country.

Though he still is haunted by all his affairs, including a scandal

where he " helped " the Royal Chiang Mai Country Club to encroach with

a golf course on a forest reserve set aside for recreational purpose

of all citizens, he still is seen as jack of all trades concerning

any deals with the Thai government. But this does not necessarily

make him credible.

 

THE TRADE

 

The CITES convention in 2004 in Bangkok offered him the opportunity

to discuss with all those impoverished countries from Africa a

special deal to fill up the Night-Safari establishment in Chiang Mai

with the necessary wild species. But not only governmental emissaries

from South-Africa, Tanzania and Kenya listened to his stringers, also

Australian officials fell for the offered opportunities. Ministers

and Permanent Secretaries alike, who were present at that time in

Bangkok, quickly did their homework and it is reported that when

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki himself visited Thailand in

October,

he received the official request from Thailand's Prime Minister

Thaksin Shinawatra for a donation of 300 wild animals - among them

white Rhinos, Cheetahs and Lions as well as Leopards, Serval cats,

silver-backed Jackals, spotted Hyenas, Hippos, reticulated Giraffes,

Topis, Eland and Impala Antelopes, Waterbucks Grant's and Thomson's

gazelles, Wildebeests, Dik-Diks, Gerenuks, Kudus, Zebras, Buffaloes

and Warthogs- to be imprisoned in the tiny 17 hectare Night Safari

area in Chiang Mai, which shall have a targeted animal population of

over 2000 animals from Australia, the Americas, South Africa,

Tanzania and Kenya, held in confinement. Several of these species are

endangered and under special protection. The recent report, which

states that Kenya would consult neighbouring countries before

donating these 300 wild animals, which also include migratory bird

species like Lesser Flamingoes, Yellow-billed Storcks and Crested

Cranes to Thailand could also mean that one just doesn't want to

step on each others feet in the bid for the bucks.

 

Suraswadi himself is under pressure, because that entertainment

facility in Chiang Mai is a multi-million dollar venture and due to

open in April. This pressure he now extends on officials, who he

knows can hardly resist his monetary and other advantages he has to

offers.

 

A tragic figure, as he might see himself, Plodprasop Suraswadi is,

however, not just the character of the Good Man of the House, who is

always misunderstood, but rather seems to be the example of a man who

is party to that power that always might pretend or even want to

create the Good, but knowingly is party to that power that always

wills and creates the Evil. He thereby just must be seen as and

remains a Mephistophelian character with reversed premises and an

enigma in a turned coat full of false promises.

 

THE PROTEST

 

While conservation groups, saying Kenya could not afford to give away

it's diminishing stocks of wildlife, already stepped up their

complaints to the Kenya government to abandon any plans concerning

the export of these 300 wild animals to Thailand, also in Australia

fierce opposition is rising to the scheme, under which Thailand is to

send eight female elephants and one male to Sydney's Taronga zoo, the

Melbourne zoo as well as to Wellington zoo in New Zealand in exchange

for at least two koalas from Australia to Chiang Mai. In both

hemispheres, however, the opinions are split along the classic lines

of those who believe wildlife must pay for its existence and thereby

degrade wild creatures to mere commodities and those who actually

want to 100% conserve wildlife, but who do not realize that they are

doing it by filling untouched nature into smaller and smaller cans,

which can not hold it for the future. This classic divide is so

typical only for the anglo-american world, which seems to have fully

conquered now not only Australia, but also Thailand and Kenya in

opposition to the traditional regimes, which prevailed in these

countries in pre-colonial times and which were much more successful

in protecting nature on a larger scale and in longer terms.

 

In both potential supply-countries, however, fierce opponents are

sure that the masterminded deals will lead to the maltreatment of the

animals in Thailand, where also a human life is worth sometimes not

even a few coins and which has not only a disastrous human rights

record, but also is infamous for its cruelty to animals. In Kenya

therefore the work to built holding pens inside Nairobi National

Park, which is near the countries largest airport, were quickly

abandoned after it had transpired that even physical interventions

and resistance by angered citizens had to be expected.

 

THE SCAM

 

The saga in Kenya has an even wider dimension: The official report

compiled by a delegation of senior wildlife officials from the Kenya

Wildlife Service, who were sent again on a rather pleasant trip to

Thailand to inspect that zoo facility - is kept under lock and seal,

which is certainly not adding to the government's credibility in

terms of transparency. It only was published that the delegation

found the zoo " appropriate " after its members had been hosted very

nicely by the Thai operators, though the leader of that delegation, a

veterinarian, later admitted that the study needed to be amended. So

far it is not clear if that has been done and if the open questions,

which even the minister still had, have been answered or if the KWS

delegation wants to get yet another trip to happy Chiang Mai out of

it. The fact that the whole case is kept more or less secret angers

not only the Kenyan group Youth for Conservation, which collected

already more than 12,000 signatures from Kenyans in addition to the

many thousand international voices against any transfer of Kenyan

wildlife to Thailand, but also many politicians of the opposition as

well as from the governing coalition itself, who criticize that the

government would do nothing against the rampant corruption, which has

obviously also grabbed the wildlife sector on a wider scale, as the

recent sacking of the KWS director John Mukuriah shows, the man in

charge for the protection of the wildlife of Kenya at the time the

deal with Thailand was designed during the CITES conference.

Unfortunately, the new KWS director Mr. Julius Kipng'etich has not

made any public comment on the plan, which seems to not just simply

go away. Maybe too much has been paid by the Thais already.

 

What is worst is the fact that the story concerning the conditions of

the deal said to have been agreed between the two countries Kenya and

Thailand has been now twisted for the third time in terms of its

official reasoning. First it was only a donation for which Kenya was

said to gain tourism advantages, i.e. people from Thailand would come

to Kenya to see them in the wild. After the whole world laughed about

that silly explanation, the argument was quickly turned into a

ministerial statement claiming that an exchange in terms of research

co-operation would benefit both countries, while Thailand would send

tigers and elephant-trainers (mahouts) and some veterinarians to

Kenya. Tigers from zoos in Thailand, which just recently have been

hit by Avian flu resulting in the death of around 100 tigers, and

Mahouts, who are infamous for beating elephants into submission, are

alien and of no help to Kenya at all. Neither are the Thai

veterinarians of any benefit for Kenya, but rather a burden, except

if their foreign paid alimentation fund would find its way into local

pockets.

 

CHIEFS TO CHIEFS and MONEY TO MONEY

 

Though it is actually believed by many that President Mwai Kibaki of

Kenya and the Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra might have just

agreed on the deal last October in the typical jovial mood of

sovereigns, which are used to determine the fate of their subjects,

it was now revealed that at least on the ministerial level the talk

is in fact involving a deal which calls for the payment of one

million US Dollar into a mutual revolving fund for wildlife. That

fund as such is either new or has not even been established. In

addition the Thai Government explains and sees the agreed fund in a

different light than Kenya and declared that one had agreed on the

setting of funds for human resource training programs and the

investment aids to Thai investors who want to start a business in

Kenya in exchange for the wildlife - and not as it is presented now

in Kenya as a " revolving wildlife mutual fund " , whatever that might

be.

 

The then acting Kenyan Minister for Wildlife and Tourism was Raphael

Tuju, who himself received in December 2004 Thailand's Deputy Prime

Minister Suwat Liptapanlop in Kenya to seal ?besides others

arrangements ?especially this deal - despite the categorical

statement by him as Kenyan minister that Kenya would maintain its

policy to not sell wildlife. It must be noted here that during the

same time, while this minister was overseeing Kenya's wildlife

affairs, another deal was announced, whereby between 20 and 30 rhinos

shall now be translocated from Kenya to the " rhino-less " Grumeti Game

Reserve in Tanzania, a scheme initiated and financed by a US citizen,

who manages hedge funds and is a Wall Street trader. How much money

is flowing in this deal, which would certainly benefit at least the

investors?public relations and seven-star lodge, is not clear

yet.

Hon. Morris Donzo, the successor of Hon. Raphael Tuju, who himself

was reshuffled last month as Wildlife Minister, has, however,

remained absolutely mum on all these issues. From where all these

animals shall be captured, to where they shall brought for their

preparation to their future fate, if private ranches and ventures in

Kenya are involved or what the true nature of the deal is are all

questions which have not been answered.

 

THE FORCES AND COUNTER-FORCES

 

The serious arguments of over 20 international and national wildlife

protection organizations, who oppose any such deal and are especially

deeply concerned about how and where these animals are to be sourced

and the life that might await them should the Thai proposals become

sad reality, were only responded to by the master of the deal, top

government adviser Plodprasop Suraswadi, by saying: " It's

absolute

nonsense! " Suraswadi is angry, because as project coordinator for the

zoo in Chiang Mai he has to secure and satisfy the massive

investments of around 52 million US Dollars into this venture by his

political and business friends. " Nonsense " , the animal protection

organizations reply, " is only the fact that Thailand's Prime

Minister, the billionaire tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, who initiated

the project to attract tourists to his hometown of Chiang Mai, seems

to not be willing to give up his brainchild and to stubbornly insist

on wildlife from Africa " . For getting these animals his adviser

Suraswadi has to jump and likewise all others. Thailands Interim

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suvit Khunkitti last week

moved to speed up the export of the elephants to Australia and

ordered his officials to complete the Koala shelter at the Night-

Safari-Zoo by April as instructed by Prime Minister Thaksin

Shinawatra.

 

But it appears that Suraswadi, who bluntly guarantees the 100% safety

of these animals, not only has forgotten his own failures during his

ministerial times, but that he and his masters also are not honestly

taking into consideration the general attitude the majority of the

Thai population has towards animals or nature. Other zoo facilities

in Thailand show this starkly and in 2002 the country only narrowly

slipped past a total international ban of any of its wildlife trades

due to proven violations against CITES, the Convention on

International Trade of Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora.

But by that time Thailand was already set to host the 2004 conference

of the parties of CITES and for a fine meal and a good massage one

can close the eyes and ears, it seems.

 

The fact remains that this South-east Asian nation is still one of

the world's leading trafficking routes for animal smugglers, with

several privately owned zoos accused of illegally obtaining orang-

utans and other rare species and for decades, Thailand's heritage of

teak forests and richly varied wildlife has fallen prey to the

plunder of grasping politicians, military officers and ruthless

entrepreneurs, largely ignored, tolerated or even fostered by

government. Thailand has for years served as a major conduit for a

trade, which conservationists estimate is worth billions of dollars a

year - surpassed in value only by the trade in drugs and arms. The

initiated crackdown on this illegal trade has apparently not lasted

for long. The business with wild species is enhanced by the

increasing demand of mainly Chinese and Koreans, who join tours to

Thailand where middlemen guide them to secret restaurants to eat

freshly prepared meals of rare and often endangered wildlife species,

like tigers, bears, apes or monkeys. All is well as long it is well

paid for. Conservationists, which were hoping that Thailand's

crackdown, which began just before the latest CITES conference, was a

start to curb the trade, state that this was a short-lived exercise

and a mere public relations spin, while today the illegal, but highly

profitable trade in wild species is in Thailand worst than ever

before.

 

OUTLOOK

 

It is high time that in Kenya as well as in Australia the people and

their parliaments not only ask the burning questions, but also get

answers from their governments and that such shady and pseudo-feudal

deals become an issue of the past. Humanity has overcome human

slavery and it must overcome the slavery of other creatures. Any such

mass-shipment of wild animals from the wild into a zoo confinement in

Thailand would certainly undermine Kenya's credibility as a positive

global force for animal welfare and protection.

 

And let us finally not forget how many honest game rangers have lost

their lives in combat with unscrupulous wildlife killers and traders.

Have brave men and women defended the wildlife only for a shady

governmental deals, which sell them into slavery in Thailand to

satisfy voyeurists ?

 

Sources: Own correspondents from Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Nairobi,

Adelaide and Dar es Salam, with additional reporting from Thailand,

Kenya, Australia and Tanzania. Various publications and press

statements.

 

 

ACTION ALERT

 

YOUR ACTION !

 

We do not believe any more so much in signature lists, polite

letters, fax or e-mail writing to those who are at the core of the

problem, though these campaigns often are an important ad-on.

(Therefore, if you got the time, please write to make your protest

against these shady wildlife deals known ?see addresses below)

 

However: What is the most important step to do?

Prepare yourself and your family and friends for a total boycott of

Thailand and let them feel the heat in every business relationship,

with every purchase, every management decision and any travel. They

still might eat up the wildlife inside Thailand or spoil the natural

habitat, but at least they will leave others in peace, if the

resistance of peoples and in turn the decisions of their politicians

as well as their governmental civil servants provides for and gives

the right message to Thailand:

 

If YOU corrupt our leaders, steal our natural heritage and do nothing

to prevent others ?and here especially your own people - from

doing

so, WE have nothing in common and we will not have anything to do

with YOU.

and

YOU continue with such and WE will discontinue having anything to do

with YOU - and in addition WE will encourage others to stay away from

YOU too. No contact, no business!

 

" Made in Thailand?will then read for us as

" Stuff it! ?I DON'T BUY OR FLY THAI?

 

 

Letters of protest can be directed to:

 

Her Royal Highness The Queen of Thailand and

Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

Via the Royal Thai Embassy of your country

 

His Excellency Pol. Lt. Col. Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra

Prime Minister of Thailand

and

His Excellency Mr. Suchart Jaovisidha

His Excellency Mr. Suwat Liptapanlop

Deputy Prime Ministers of Thailand

via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Royal Thai Government

through the Royal Thai Embassy / Consulate near you

 

Find the nearest Thai embassy or consulate via:

http://dir./Regional/Countries/Thailand/Government/Embassies_

and_Consulates/

or at: http://www.mfa.go.th/web/10.php

 

e.g.

Botschaft des Koenigreiches Thailand in Berlin

Ihrer Exzellenz,

Frau Cholchineepan Chiranond,

Botschafterin

Lepsiusstrasse 64/66,

D-12163 Berlin

Tel. (+49 30) 79 48 10

Fax. (+49 30) 79 48 15 11

Email: general

& Email. thaiber

 

N.B.:

H.E. L.T.AKRASID AMATAYAKUL

The Thai Ambassador to Kenya is also Thailand's Representative to

UNEP

Direct e-mail: akrasida or akrasida

And copy to the embassy e-mail: thainbi

 

Thailands Ambassador for the Environment to UNEP

 

 

Please copy all communication to the above also to:

 

Mr. Manop MEKPRAYOONTHONG,

International Development Affairs Division

Department of International Organizations

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Sri Ayudhya Road

Bangkok 10400

Thailand

TEL: (66-2) 643-5077

FAX : (66-2) 643-5071

E-mail: div0805

 

Dr.Surakiart Sathirathai,

Foreign Minister

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

via Department of South Asian Middle East and African Affairs

southasian

and via Department of International Organization

interorg

 

Justice Minister Mr. Pongthep Thepkanjana

via Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs

treaties

 

Department of International Economic Affairs

interecon

 

And since it takes two to Tango, you might also want to write to:

 

His Excellency

The Hon. Emilio Mwai Kibaki, C.G.H., M.P.

State House

P.O. Box 40530

Nairobi, Kenya

Phone: +(254-20) 227411

Fax: +(254-20) 210150,

+(254-20) 247808,

+(254-20) 337340

Telegrams: " RAIS "

E-mail: president

E-mail: contact

http://www.officeofthepresident.go.ke

 

Minister for Tourism and Wildlife

Hon. Morris Dzoro, M.P. and

Assistant Minister for Wildlife

Hon. George Khaniri, M.P.

As well as: Permanant Secretary

Mrs. Rebecca Mwikali Nabutola, M.B.S.

Utalii House, Off Uhuru Highway

P.O. Box 30027, Nairobi

Tel. 333555, 313010 Fax. 318045

Telegrams: " UTALII "

Website: www.tourism.go.ke

 

Minister for Environment

Hon. Kilonzo Musioka, M.P. and

Vice-Minister for Environment

Hon. Prof. Wangari Maathai, M.P.

Maji House, Ngong Road

P.O. Box 49720, Nairobi

Tel. +(254-20) 716103 / 229261

Telegrams: " MAJI "

 

Hon. Francis ole Kaparo

The Speaker of the National Assembly

P.O.Box 41842 - 00100 GPO

NAIROBI / Kenya

Phone: +254-(0)20-221291 Ext. 32000

Fax: +254-(0)20-336589

E-mail: bunge

 

Ministries without own e-mail can be addressed through the Kenya High

Commission near you.

see: http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/kenya1.html and

http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/kenya3.html

 

Mr. Julius Kipng'etich KWS

Kenya Wildlife Service

Fax 254 20 603792

e-mail: director

and kws

 

Kenya Anti Corruption Commission

attn: Justice Ngera

Integrity House

Nairobi

e-mail: kacc

phone: +254-20-35 17 50

+254-20-2 71 95 55

- 2 71 97 55

- 2 71 88 12

 

Permanent Secretary

Ethics and Governance

N.N. (Mr. John Githongo resigned)

Office of the President

State House

Nairobi

e-mail: governance

phone: +254-20-22 74 36

 

Demand that all wildlife captures in Kenya must have been approved

also by an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from:

The National Environment Management Authority NEMA

MICHECKA, Ratemo W. General

National Environment Management Authority

PO Box 67839

Nairobi

Kenya

TEL: +254 2 609013

FAX : +254 2 608997

E-mail: dgnema

 

and as a Kenyan citizen insist that all such operations must be

transparent and prior informed consent be sought from the local

communities.

 

Make clear in all your communications that you demand nothing less

than a complete stop to the live wildlife exports, the illegal

wildlife trade and the holding of wild animals in captivity.

 

Letters to the Press in Kenya can be sent to: John Mbaria, East

African Standard: eastafrican

 

 

CONCERNING AUSTRALIA:

 

Email or fax the

The Minister for Environment & Heritage

Senator The Hon. Ian Campbell

to stop any wildife deals with Thailand

senator.ian.campbell

Fax: (international code) +61+2+6273 6101

Tel: (international code) +61+2+6277 7640

 

Contact the Australian Embassy in your country and register your

complain.

see: http://www.ausmaps.com/embassy.htm and

www.ausmaps.com/embassy2.htm

 

As taxpayer of a developed nation, please urge your government to

halt any technical or financial development aid, deriving from your

money as taxpayer, which is earmarked for Thailand, as long as the

Thai Government spoils the money pressed from their own people by

spending it for such wildlife concentration camps, since this is

certainly not the way how Thailand could achieve to reach its targets

to fulfil the worldwide agreed millennium goals. The 52 million US

Dollar which were spent so far to create the wildlife confinement and

nutcase entertainment centre in Chiang Mai would have been better

spend on the victims of the Tsunami. Since Thailand seems to have all

the money in the world to spend it for Night-Safari-Clubs, make sure

that your donation and your governments contribution to the Tsunami

fund for Thailand is redirected to countries like the Andamans, which

really deserve it.

 

Please boycott the Thailand-Africa Symposium: New Era for Economic

Partnership " on 25 th March 2005 at Vitessamoson Ministry of Foreign

Affairs, Sri Ayudhya Road.

unless it is official that the Thais will abstain from the wildlife

imports from Kenya, Australia or elsewhere.

 

But ask ALL to whom you write to provide proof that they have

abstained from any plans to buy, hijack or steal; or otherwise to

sell, trade, donate or transport any wild species to Thailand ?

especially not from the wildlands of impoverished African countries.

 

Thank you

 

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