Maybe the best way to end animal exploitation is to become semi-famous and then pose with one.
Phi Phi police yesterday said they would seek out the owner of a captive gibbon seen with a smiling former Miss Universe in a photo she posted Monday.
“We will try to track down and apprehend the owner of the gibbon and have the animal confiscated,” Lt Col Danai Niyomdecha of Phi Phi Islands Police told the Phuket Gazette.
The photo of Natalie Glebova posing with an endangered gibbon prompted angry comments and now a vow from police to investigate the exploitation of animals on the island.
Glebova, who won Miss Universe 2005 and is an expat resident of Thailand, was seen holding the gibbon in a plaid outfit in the photo posted to Facebook and Instagram on Monday.
“Cutest gibbon in the cutest little outfit!” she wrote.
In recent weeks several animals, including two slow lorises, have been rescued from their human pimps who who take money from others, mainly tourists, to pose with them. In 2013, pop star Rihanna’s photo with a slow loris upset many and led to
“Guardian of the Park,” a new office responsible for protected species and animals Phi Phi National Park is also being set up according to park official Boonname Chauyradom.
“Construction of the new office is already underway on the island at Ao Ling. We hope it will be operational very soon,” Boonname said.
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