Thailand’s Tiger Kingpins | Unreported World
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2021
- We’re Undercover to confront a suspected tiger dealer, and track down the tiger kingpins who have made millions from a sinister and sometimes deadly trade.
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We travel to the last safe haven of the near-extinct Indochinese tiger, and meet the rangers and conservationists fighting to protect the endangered predators. Meanwhile Thai wildlife enforcement agencies are determined to crack down on the illegal trade in live and dead tigers.
But they are struggling against a lucrative and murky industry that supplies an insatiable demand from Vietnam and China for trophies and chinese medicine.
WARNING: Scenes of animal cruelty
Reporter: Jonathan Miller
Producer/Director: Anneliese McAuliffe
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro
Production Company: Channel 4 News
My respect to the ecologists & rangers!
Yes, only for them..
I'm absolutely heartbroken for all the animals in the world being poached for profit! Beyond devastated that this war against poachers will not end. I pray that these evil people will suffer somehow!
I think there will come a day the only place anybody will be able to these Majestic inhabitants of this planet, will be a sanctuary or a zoo.
We grow pigs for profit, I believe we can grow tigers for profit. Law have to be changed, that is only issue.
When I cannot control a situation which is happening in my life, I am always told, "Give it to God".
The rangers have a noble mission.
And brave too a tiger or more could attack them anytime
The penalties for these crimes always end up being a cost of doing business. So in other words the owner was tipped off before the raid.
Huge respect for rangers and conservationists! How can individuals help keep these positive measures going.
This documentary was soooooo good. 🏆Should be longer than 24 minutes. You guys should have also investigated the trade routes In Myanmar and Vietnam
In a country were smuggling drugs as simple as marijuana gets u life , these people getting two years for killing wildlife smh
sickening
I am glad my country India's tiger conservation paid off.Tiger population in wild increased a lot over years.
It's great that your country got serious about it.
@@lazaruskarl2629 I thought the topic here is tigers.
@@apollo6917 what are you on about?
Respect India
From indonesia
Also Leopard and Lion population too.
It's heartbreaking to know that these evil poachers kill these beautiful Tigers for greed. I pray the conservationists can continue to protect the tigers and stay safe themselves whilst fighting the poachers.
Human's greed and selfishness,
Not being content with what we have,
Disrupting the spirit & balance of nature will surely come back and 'bite' us!
Yeah to bad the humans who don't have to suffer for it.
Covid 19 is a good example of nature getting back at humans
@@jopathkorowa8538 the ultimate solution is to encourage vegetable based diets and ecological edu
Human's can also be selfless and compassionate. That these rangers as an example. Everyone likes to talk about how selfish and greedy humans can be and some are but no one talks about all the good humans can do too. Does that mean I disagree with you? No, humans have been the cause for many species going extinct but they have also been the cause in saving many species too. When we talk about the bad, we should talk about the good too or the bad will consume all.
China's appetite for everything will finish us from pangolins, elephants, tigers,Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Dont forget simultaneously emptying and polluting the ocean
@@viciouslady1340 True
@@viciouslady1340 yes sooner or later we should look in to China not as an enemy but to be reprimanded for their actions, because when everything runs out they will come for you and I.
The poachers should be shot dead, and the atomic bomb should be
Dropped on China, period,
@@viciouslady1340 along with Japan
OMG you wont believe how happy unreported world is back !
This is sickening the way they treat animals knowing their numbers are low. For medicine, really. Such ignorance
It may not be now, but imagine one day, your granchildren or grand grandchildren would have to ask or search the internet just to see how a tiger looks like because they had gone extinct. Earth is our ancestral home that we need to take care of so that they can also experience earth the way we did. If it was possible, I wish for one day these smugglers and poachers switch positions with their preys. I wonder how they would feel when the animals cage them too. Tell them to roll, jump and stand just for a few claps.
It's like that with so many animals, all for medicines that don't work outside of a placebo effect or could be bought without the death of the animal
it wont happen.here in india they are in high security and now we have 3500 tigers.no was 1700 in 2010
@@Gauravscopee your neighbouring nation may put an end to that unfortunately
we still have a chance to save them
Trust me, the corruption is real in TH
Land of smiles is more like the land of bribes!
So the kingpin was caught with a freshly killed tiger with him but pardoned by the king himself......what else can we expect???? Hope God saves these poor animals. 😢
Th king himself is involved in this business
Excellent report!
Ummm, two legged animals can also be hunted or so I'm told.
Or 1 & 1/2 legged men!! When he was getting out the car on crutches, they sat him down & he had a piss pot in his hand 🤢
I say call open season
Amazing documentary, we as humans need to do everything in our power to ensure these beautiful innocent creatures (all creatures) thrive once more and never again get exploited for so called medication etc which have been proven to have no health benefits what so ever for us humans. All in all a complete pointless procedure. Sentences for this behaviour should be severe, I’m sure if the death penalty was introduced for tiger poaching it would be a great start in the conservation of these animals. 🐅🐯
Let's the trader meeting with tiger 1on1 in the case! 🤣😅😂🐯
Taking pictures with baby cups pretty cute🇹🇬
Tiger killers should have the death penalty
heaven loves you.... damn fine piece of investigative journalism.... walk softly and carry a big lens
Why did the Thai king pardon a tiger smuggler? Very weird.
From what I've heard, "very weird" would be a charitable description of the man. "Widely loathed and feared" seems to be one of the more common ones.
"Incapable of ruling" shows up quite a bit, too. I don't think addressing tiger smuggling is on his to-do list.
@Andrew Lee The man is known for brutal suppression...but yeah, let's pretend that fake tattoos are the biggest problem.
the thai king would not know or care who was pardoned....some offical would have made a list and those people received the kings pardon.....the thai kings to busy living in Germany with his harem and hardly goes to Thailand.......
Yeah he sucks pretty bad. Nothing like his father who was a great person.
good reportage.
Thank you for uploading
Amazing job
A serious channel with serious reporting.
3:45 made me go "awww"
How in the world do people eat tigers? It's bad enough that they are hunted for other reasons. But for their "meat". A carnivore's a beast? Christ. Who eats lions in Africa?
Believe it or not, some people DO eat lions. It's weird, I know.
They think if they eat the tiger they will become the tiger
It is what it is. Why do you eat beef or chicken
@@cheexiong1449 I suppose the debate is they're not exotic animals
They are all working together
Just look what for cars they drive
Front end teams should be paid more equipped more. there life is on the line so sad to hear that.
How can you allow 60 tigers, a species under threat of extinct at one place and under such circumstances like small cages. U can see this and can't arrest the violators and can't free the Tigers is ridiculous. U can bring some charges on them and just release those tigers. My god there are countries having less than 60 tiger population and there is one shed having 60 tigers and you accept it. Horrible
Going by the makers figures of how much they roam at night, those 60 tigers would/could cover 1,200 miles per night. Instead, the majestic, beautiful creatures are stuck in a small concrete hole.
It's for their safety, I'm guessing. If you let them roam wild, chances are some assholes are gonna come in guns blazing and shoot them for their fur
This channel has a bright future. 🌞
It's magical that he always seems to know when these raids are going to take place, y'all have a rat in your circle
Protect the tigers. Good job Thai rangers.
🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 67 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼
Damien please, please do your best to look after these beautiful creatures. God Bless you.
Thank you for this information I learned a few more things about nature and man
Such brilliant reportage! The script, the covert investigation and all about the bloody tiger trade in these Asian killing fields. Karma surely gets back.
Can a foreigner become a Thailand ranger, and what do you have to do? Having trouble finding any information online
Humans are horrible then animals when the greed increases😔
Deep thanks and gratitude to the ecologists, rangers and volunteers trying to protect the tigers
Government must do:
Control the boarders and makesure there's no smuggling activity.
Lifetime sentence in prison if proven guilty..
More forest officer include with rifle weapons and lifeless ammunition.
National army and police department must put their team to catch poachers and save the tiger.
NO CORRUPTION.
Yes lifetime prison
Australian and US desert can easily turn into the safari zoo million time bigger than Thailand jungle.
How about stop letting them hold tigers/lion captive.
If they are not nursing them back to health. They should not have them at all.
Indeed. They should at least start with big requirements of the living standard of the caged tigers with huge outside cages, green fields and the ability to socialize with their peers. Leading it to become a more criminal market if you try to easily "farm" tigers, and also letting those who actually live in captivity have a little better quality of life.
Or lock up them up with them if caught illegally farming tigers. That should teach them
@@haddingtoniangcp2464 great comment.
Supply and demand fuels the black market. There should be more effort on the parts of demand countries to crackdown on consumers of these goods. If rich people in your country were importing human flesh for cannibal-theme dinner parties surely the government should be going after them. Why not for illegally acquired animal parts?
If demand goes down, suppliers have no incentive to keep breeding tigers and they'll have to switch to some other trade like drug dealing.
There must be a rule to allow rangers to shoot down poachers
thank you
Such beautiful beasts to be so disrespected is a shame.
Why would the king give amnesty to a person who for 20 killed tigers.
The so called king should be ashamed for this "tiger killer " not just the amnesty but 2 yr sentence for killing these majestic animals for so long & enjoying the "high life!"
Akita, 🇺🇸 lady
Akita......the Thai King doesnt pick who gets pardon...he would not know or care.....Thailand celebrates the Kings Birthday each year and some years up to 30,000 prisoners are pardoned in the Kings name....goverment officials make the list up....The Thai King doesnt care about anything excepting living almost permanently in Germany with his large harem....he only returns to Thailand if he has to do some official business.
@@chanang453 thank-you for clearing that up
But it seems to make it even more of a sadden situation. If the ruler of any country doesn't care or even live there, then there's no stability. It is no wonder that the citizens are so poor, not enough basic needs seem to be met & the corruption is rabid. What chance do honest people have & the children watch/listen & learn from criminal activity around them.
It's so very sad that the king lives in Germany & doesn't care about any of his people.
I'm sorry but I don't know much about this country or its ruler. Isn't there any siblings that can start a process for the king to be dethroned? In America,you know that our constitution gives an amendment for the removal of a president.
I'm sure that the gang leaders would have a violent response to any attempted coup.
Ty again for clarifying what I wasn't aware of.
Stay safe, healthy & happy.
Love 💌,
. Akita
@@akita21154 I don’t think the Thai 🇹🇭 king can be dethroned but I’m sure they can implement some reforms so people like this tiger 🐯 🐅 poacher wouldn’t be pardoned.
@@1525boy a movement needs to be started if there isn't one already, to encourage such provisions to be taken.
The tiger will be extinct & then it's to late. We can't explain how truly beautiful the tiger, not just the tiger but those b4 & after just how truly regal, beautiful & magnificent they were.
There are more tigers in America than in the world. That shouldn't be & it hurts my heart & soul to know how many citizens(non human)of this world are truly on the brink of extinction
The tiger in good zoo's or the rescued animal being given the chance to run free & actually be able to touch grass, dirt etc. on their native soil possibly for the 1st ever is wonderful but they can't reproduce fast enough to sustain the species. Those tigers in breeding programs around the world can't be solely responsible for its own future. Again they can't reproduce fast enough to keep themselves from always being on the brink of extinction. And mankind caused this problem along with problems other animals are facing, like lost of its habitat from South America to the Asian countries.
For people to believe that the tiger, whose pelt can go as high as $50,000. not to mention other parts of the body is believed to have healing,magical properties. These ideas came from many centuries in the past. It should sicken all that not just this magnificent animal but the horn of the rhino, the tusks of the elephant, the head of the lion as a trophy, the snow leopard, the lynx
& the fin of the shark.
How our world would look with the lost of even one of these citizens which came b4 man was created by he who created all things, seen & unseen. We are their sisters & brothers as well as their caretakers. We should hide our eyes in shame.
Akita.🐯😪
Until the photos with cubs here in Thailand is banned it will keep getting worse, so many tourists want these pathetic photos with tigers and 🐘 here it's shameful
Much respect
Saw this on TV. I was horrified. I've been to Thailand, twice, but after watching this I won't go back on principle until the government get serious, and serious about the punishment for those who abuse these majestic animals.
They're already doing much more than their neighbouring countries. You can't make change in a day.
Well you will never be back then. Its super corrupt
@@850Blasianit is a country of pedos
"Every so often, the cops make a cubs bust"
These people who go to these places to pet tiger cubs and take selfies are also contributing to the mass mistreatment and suffering of tigers.
so sad to see there beautiful beasts exploited like this
no mention of the tiger temple? that was big news!
I would like to get my hands on these animal poachers. Give them absolute hell for all the horrible things they do towards our planet's animals. All life on earth should have equal share of this planet.
This is really sad.
This is so heartbreaking 💔. Please strengthen border control, rangers protected and well compensated, and dont make this poachers get away without punishment. 😫😩🥺 humans are so cruel killing these wonderful animals😭
The sentence that these vial poachers and smugglers are getting is an absolute joke!! It NEEDS TO CHANGE!!!!
The onlyvway to save these animalsvim sad to say is to put a monetary value on them eg ,tiger 20,000 dead surely a live tiger is worth sooo much more
Lucky theres those people who go out into the jungle to defend those beautiful Tigers. Thats huge to full on go to battle with poachers live in the jungle risk life and limb hardly backed up by anyone let alone the government massive respect to them i thank them deeply. Thats the kind of people who get to Heaven the work they do is far more important than 99% of professions when you compare the worth of a couple hundred wild tigers verse 8 billion humans whos more important in gods eyes in natures eyes in karma's one those Tigers is worth more than a million humans their Apex Preditors stuck in jail because some **** wants to make some money we need a go fund page for gods soldiers for the Tigers its so bad that their in those cages weve got idiots here trying to liberate chickens from farms the worlds fu
Chaiwat Limlikitaksorn, Director, Department of National Parks Region 9, how u know "if" whether he is not corrupted!? "Y can't I find the evidence of tiger smuggling"? Come on man, till today Thailand still has Top officers that r corrupted.
how do you know hes corrupt?.....maybe hes one of the good guys......theres heaps of bad officers in Thailand but he might be a good guy and one of his men may be corrupt....thai police put many thais in jail every year so they cant all be bad officers.
Yeah but Tiger wine gives you super powers.
i wish figures would stop saying theres 4000 tigers left in the wild !!!! because %90 of tigers are the bengal tiger the rest are almost gone. nearly extinct
Somebody needs to go hunting for these folks!
You know: "...make ashtrays out of their hands and feet, hey...I'll pay for a human hand ashtray! Specially if it is made from these poachers!" "...and for a human head soup bowl? ....forget about it!"
...and as for the guy with the liger, hey I would like to run some DNA crisper type experiments on him! see if I can make a human/orangutan hybrid! ...and then make a pelt out of his hide! You know find some new ways to decorate my fireplace! I would bet his head will look spectacular on a mahogany mantle!
It's easy for you to come up and say that, but you don't understand why people are doing this in the first place. Lack of education and poverty. Look at the bigger picture. It's easy to say "kill them!" but that offers a temporary solution. You kill one and two more people will take their place. That's how the world works. Fix poverty first, and you stop the poaching trade
At 4.20 the photo shows very young man or is it boy? He seems to be under 20 years old. A boy. 😪
TRAGIC...
The horrific cruelty of exploitation . These people are lazy, uneducated, ignorant. I hope the Tigers will end up eating these people.
Got a real Jabba the Hut vibe from that last guy
the owner is Vietnam
Wow! very big Tiger
Glad their numbers are recovering. These tigers should be protected at all costs. Asian people are notorious for using tiger and bear parts for traditional medicines especially the Chinese and Vietnamese.
So many tigers in cages😭
Also they are almost finished the beautiful manta rays
Alternative medicine has a lot to answer for
I'm amazed Anson Wong wasn't mentioned as he's a notorious wildlife trafficker in that side of the world.
India..Heaven for Tigers..
It’s 2024 if people can’t find anything better to do when traveling than this this then they must be very depressed individuals
There are about 30,000 Tigers in Farms in China.
What is more dangerous Illegal hunters hunting tigers or tigers attacking humans ?
Ok guy, he knows as much as you do, you asking him the same question but in a different way, isn't going to make him know more. He's already told you that he was suspicious about the Cubs but couldn't prove anything
They could keep the wild tiger population up if the government pays more money to rangers and open up tourism in these areas like India.
In Cambodia the wild life rangers were disarmed by the army.
Tigers were not happy. They all look sad in capativity.
This kind of industry is sh*t! Please respect the animals and nature you evil humans!
Salute to those wildlife rangers and othe environmentalists.🙏
Difficult subject. Inhumane, heartless cruelty. Fearsome beasts. "The love of money is the root of all evil".
Victor Sagat approves.
Law should be applied to Everyone even to Temple run by Monk...because we Never know what goes Behind the scene...
May the stripes return🐯🌿
These people really believes drinking tiger testicle hot tea make their cucumber 🥒 stronger and invincible 😂😂😂....
all caught poachers should be fed to the tigers
Certain type of people be sneaking cameras but come with a warm heart but really just tryana get him arrested im sure if they shouldnt or cant have these type of animals they wouldnt carol baskin has a bunch people have alot all over. As people get more populated and keep migrating with this type of living that we all live in your gonna loose alot of animals. Bears and moose get hunted in Canada
🐅 ? Thai lan and 🇻🇳 ?
Humans are the worst species of living beings hands down! a despicable lot I'm saddened to be apart of at times, smh
What’s the use, there’s no hope.💔
These poachers should spend many years in jail.Tigers are majestic animals
These docs always make it seems like poaching is the only problem. Meanwhile, farming, to feed the ever growing human population, is killing hundreds more.
He should get 20 years in jail for killing the tiger
STOP HUNT WILD TIGERS!! 🧡🖤