NEWSLINK: Sick tiger trade exposed as dead cubs found in freezer by BBC crew

Dead tiger cubs were found in a freezer by a BBC film crew investigating big cat trafficking across South East Asia.

Investigator Aldo Kane also finds the animals illegally hidden in high security pens in Thai zoos, a trader openly selling tiger products in Laos with a street value higher than cocaine, and caged cats fattened up in a dark basement in Vietnam to be killed and cooked to order.

The frozen cubs were discovered at a breeding facility in Laos, with Kane opening the chest freezer and saying: “Oh f***. Tiger cubs. Baby bones. There’s three cubs in here.”


Leaving behind camera traps, he succeeded in filming men taking the corpses out for transportation.


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