Horrifying Phatthalung bird massacre costs Siamnest THB5-bn in lost revenue
A Royal Thai Police (RTP) team visited Phatthalung province on Monday to investigate the case of missing birds’ nests and the mass killing of swiftlets.
Siamnest company, which has the concession for collecting bird’s nests from the 107 caves in Phatthalung’s seven islands, sent its teams off to collect nests from September 9 to 17.
However, when the collectors arrived at the last cave, they found no nests but instead, the carcasses of more than a million birds, the remains of a fire and trash including plastic bottles and shoes.
The damage from this bird massacre has been estimated at about 5 billion baht.
Phatthalung authorities, meanwhile, have contacted the Department of Special Investigation to see if they will consider taking on the case.
