Decision will be made on revocation of land using at tiger temple

BANGKOK, June 5 (TNA) -- A decision whether to revoke a permission given to an infamous Buddhist temple to use the land is expected to be known later this week, said Adisorn Noochdamrong, deputy director-general of National Park, Wildlife and Flora Department. Mr Adisorn said after transferring the rest of 137 tigers from Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua in Sai Yok district in Kanchanaburi province bordering Myanmar to a wildlife breeding centre in Ratchaburi province. Oficials said between 8 – 10 tigers which gave birth recently have to be given special care while two others have become sick before relocating to the breeding centre. Police have so far filed charges against three monks and two workers and plan to interrogate every member of the Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua Foundation. They have yet to interrogate the abbot of the temple who was disappeared when the officials started transfering the tigers. Mr Adisorn said he was informed by the Land Reform Office in Kanchanaburi that it would ask the National Office of Buddhism to consider on revoking the land using permission where the tigers were kept within this week. The relocation of Bengal tigers started before the discovery of the carcasses of 70 tiger cubs in a freezer at the temple, two tiger pelts and a large number of talismans made from tiger carcasses including fangs and skins. (TNA)