article_snippet.sent: The authorities say a Thai temple that's home to 147 tigers in the care of monks after a vet complained to authorities that three were missing has been keeping the animals without the proper paperwork and have vowed to seize the animals, sparking standoffs in recent weeks between officials and angry monks blocking the animals way.
article_snippet.sent: Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) said earlier this week Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) planned to take the animals away on Friday.
article_snippet.sent: Asked whether Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) would consider seizing the animals DNP official Somsak Poopet replied: 'the tigers at the temple have that idea but in the tigers at the temple actions so far that idea has not reached that process yet.'
article_snippet.sent: Thai wildlife officials have been threatening to seize the tigers at the temple being kept by monks at The Tiger Temple' in western Thailand .
article_snippet.sent: Local animal rights groups have accused The Tiger Temple' in western Thailand of failing to properly look after the tigers at the temple.
article_snippet.sent: I think a lot of the people here are very motivated, I think a lot of the people here really love the animals, but a lot of the people here're doing it absolutely the wrong way,' Edwin Wiek, founder of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, which has campaigned to have the tigers at the temple removed, told AFP. '
article_snippet.sent: Temple authorities were unavailable for comment Friday.
article_snippet.sent: But Temple authorities insist Temple authorities are a genuine conservation project and have previously denied allegations that Temple authorities have failed to look after the animals or illegally traffic in Temple authorities.