WILDLIFE FRIENDS FOUNDATION BOSS AND WIFE CLEARED OF WILD CHARGES The Appeal Court today cleared Edwin Wiek, Jansaeng Sangnanork, and the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) on charges of illegal wildlife possesion and other crimes after they were arrested in what they describe as a ‘brutal raid’ that lasted almost 10 days in February 2012. […]
THAI COURT MAKES CRIMINALS OUT OF WILDLIFE PROTECTORS – BUT ALLOWS THEM TO CONTINUE RESCUING ANIMALS! Westerners are sometimes confused by verdicts and rulings handed out in the criminal courts in Thailand. Actually criminal law in Thailand is based on British criminal law, but there have been more than a few changes made over the […]
Thailand caught left footed in ‘vendetta’ against popular animal rights man Edwin Wiek, the popular founder of the Wildlife Friends of Thailand, said today that he would go to jail rather than profer bail money in what he says is a vendetta being carried out against him by the Department of National Parks. He says […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.