Natural Resources Conservation Office of Riau has arrested a 92 year old man for killing more than 50 Sumatran tigers over his lifetime. “At first we didn’t believe Grandpa Wiryo was a tiger hunter, but after we conducted surveillance, we finally arrested the suspect with three sacks of evidence,” Riau conservation head Edi Susanto told SCTV on Friday. Edi said the evidence consisted of skin and bones from a tiger killed early this month in the Kerumutan wildlife conservation area in Ind... [Read Post]
20 Mar 2010, 07:14 |
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