Pangolin found inside freezer: Tourism authority launches inquiry

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The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) said it had launched an inquiry into the incident where a Pangolin was found inside a freezer at a restaurant in Kollupitiya.

In a statement, the SLTDA said the license of the restaurant would be cancelled, if found guilty.

"We will not hesitate to take action against tourism service providers who fail to adhere to the country's legal and regulatory framework. With the cancellation of the license, the restaurant would no longer be considered a legal tourism service provider in Sri Lanka," it said.

The SLTDA said, in such an event, it would also request the Department of Immigration and Emigration to cancel the visa of the Chinese national who functioned as the restaurant operator.

A similar request would be made to the Excise Department to cancel its liquor license.

The restaurant in question, 'Tong Ni Roast Meet', is located at Walukarama Mawatha, Colombo o3.

"Our intention is to ensure that all registered tourism industry service providers adopt highest professional processes. We will expedite our screening processes with the establishment of the Enforcement Unit under the SLTDA, " the statement said.

The Police found the Pangolin inside a freezer of the restaurant when they conducted an inspection following a tip-off, last week.

Comments - 3

chamath Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:43 PM

These Chinese are the issue for most of the world problems on animal extinction. They basically ate all Pangolins in China and Vietnam only has 1 left for the entire country. They basically eat anything until them extinct. Also they started eating Donkey meat and there is a global shortage of Donkeys. Now the Chinese pay a lot of money to steal Donkeys from Africa. It all began with the moron George Bush who made trade deal with China to ruin Japanese products. Now it back fired to USA because there you all get garbage chinese products.

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T L Bandara Sunday, 11 February 2018 08:47 AM

Good if the Colombo Municipal Council PHI/Medical authorities also investigate whether freezing Pangolins to death (in freezer cold rooms) is their usual practice? Besides that, they should investigate on the adverse contamination of the freezer room by keeping live Pangolins inside.

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Silva Sunday, 11 February 2018 10:59 AM

Colombo is owned by the Chinese and soon we will have Chinese policemen too just like in Zambia!

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