Forest protection forces of the Central Highland province of Lam Dong and experts of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) made a sudden raid on many restaurants in Da Lat city on August 26.
At least ten restaurants were caught in the act of selling wild animal meat. Officials seized over 300 kilos of wildlife meat from these restaurants. Seized meats included weasel, pangolin, chamois, monkeys, panthers, and snakes that had been embalmed.
The inspection team of 100 people also seized two bear hands, the skin and the head of a gibbon, dried chamois heads, the horns and bones of other animals, plus 40 living bamboo rats.
Wildlife meat seized after the raid.
Two dead monkeys.
A chamois head.
A frozen panther.
The body of a flying squirrel.
The body of a rare langur monkey.
Frozen meat.
A frozen pangolin.
WCS Vietnam director.
A living porcupine.
A living snake.
WCS experts took meat samples for maintenance.
