$11 mln project to disrupt wildlife supply chain in Greater Mekong region

Thai authorities have arrested two men accused of trying to smuggle tiger bones and meat to Vietnam on a bus, police said Thursday.

Czech police had charged a Vietnamese and two other men with illegal wildlife trade after they found a dead tiger used in traditional Chinese medicine.

The cubs' dried bodies were planned to be sold to wine brewers for $3,080.

Police found them in a bus traveling from Saigon to Hanoi.

Police rescued the tiger just as the group was about to kill it to make bone paste.

The driver and his accomplice fled the scene, leaving the 180-kilogram tiger in the vehicle.

The tigers' internal organs had been removed.

The dead tiger weighs as much as 120 kilograms.

The private farm is one of a few allowed to raise tigers in Binh Duong Province.

'On the ground, nothing has changed.'

The World Wildlife Fund on Thursday urged Asian states to investigate all tiger breeding centers and crack down on any involved in black-market animal trade.

Thai wildlife authorities found 40 tiger cub carcasses in a freezer in Thailand's infamous Tiger Temple on Wednesday as they removed live animals in response to international pressure over suspected trafficking and abuse.

Wildlife authorities raid Thailand's infamous Tiger Temple, taking away three of the animals and vowing to seize more.