Chinese national's TikTok lion spotlights Cambodia's exotic pet problem
Cambodia's Ministry of Environment Conservationists have warned of the growing number of exotic animals being kept as pets in Cambodia ’s capital, after a 18-month-old lion was seized from a Chinese national’s Phnom Penh villa last week. [embed]https://youtu.be/FbZGub9D19U[/embed] The 70kg male was removed by Forestry Administration officials last Sunday (June 27) from a property in the city’s Boeng Keng Kang district – where a square metre of land can cost as much as US$5,500 (S$7,410), according to real estate firm CBRE. Authorities said they were alerted to the lion’s existence a...