BANGKOK, 2 June 2013 Forty-six national parks nationwide will be closed until the end of September, the rainy and monsoon season.
Mr Teerapat Prayurasiddhi, Deputy Director General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, has announced that 46 national parks across the country will be closed from June to the end of September, which is the monsoon season, to prevent accidents which are more likely to take place than in any other season. However, some those national parks will remain closed until October 31st.
The Deputy Director General also disclosed that several arrests were made at shopping malls and JJ Market from April 23-May 31, where officials seized a number of protected animals smuggled into the country; rescued animals included red-whiskered bulbuls, Asian tri-colored squirrels, owls, lorises, hawks, and turtles.
