{"id":3216,"date":"2025-07-18T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3216\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:29:12","slug":"bangkok-post-thailand-sending-four-orangutans-home-to-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3216\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post – Thailand sending four orangutans home to Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUBLISHED : 18 Jul 2025 at 18:13<\/p>\n

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Thailand will repatriate four confiscated orangutans to Indonesia by the end of this year, as part of celebrations marking 75 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations.<\/p>\n

The orangutans were seized in two separate illegal wildlife trade cases earlier this year, according to the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.<\/p>\n

Three were confiscated on Jan 21 in Chumphon province, while two were seized during a sting operation in Bangkok in May \u2014 although one died while under the department\u2019s care.<\/p>\n

All of the surviving animals are being housed at the Khao Prathap Chang Wildlife Rescue Centre in Ratchaburi province.<\/p>\n

Sadudee Panpakdee, director of the department\u2019s Cites division, said Thai and Indonesian security authorities recently held talks on joint efforts to combat transboundary wildlife crime and return trafficked animals to their natural habitats.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reaffirmed our commitment to the Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) agreement to conserve and protect wildlife,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSending the orangutans home this year symbolises our strong bilateral cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2006, Thailand has returned 74 orangutans to Indonesia in six separate repatriation operations. The largest group of 48 was sent back in November 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 18 Jul 2025 at 18:13 \u00a0 Small \u00a0 Medium \u00a0 Large (Photo: Department of National Parks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,4805,4804,128,338,4806],"class_list":{"0":"post-3216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-indonesia","11":"tag-orangutans","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-trafficking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}