BANGKOK (THAILAND) - Forty-eight orangutans smuggled into Thailand and which have been stranded in the country following a military coup will be repatriated to Indonesia this week, an official said Sunday. Pornchai Pratumratanatan, chief of a wildlife research center that has been sheltering the animals for several months, said the Indonesian government will send a C-130 military transport plane to pick up the apes on Tuesday.
The orangutans, which had been smuggled into Thailand and confiscated from a private zoo, were to have been repatriated Sept. 23 but the generals who staged a military coup against the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra refused to allow a foreign military airplane to land here at that time.
Initially, 53 apes were to have been sent back, but one animal park, the Night Safari in Chiang Mai, had borrowed five of them for display and they were not ready to be sent back, Pornchai said. He said they would be sent to Indonesia at a later date.
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BANGKOK (THAILAND) - Forty-eight orangutans smuggled into Thailand and which have been stranded in the country following a military coup will be repatriated to Indonesia this week, an official said Sunday. Pornchai Pratumratanatan, chief of a wildlife research center that has been sheltering the animals for several months, said the Indonesian government will send a C-130 military transport plane to pick up the apes on Tuesday.
