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SHOTLIST 1. Wide of two Thai police officers pulling cover off cage, revealing tiger 2. Close of tiger in cage 3. Close of police officer 4. Close of tiger 5. Wide of arrested man, Sudjai Chantawong, being brought out before media in front of tiger cage, at the Royal Thai Police Nature Crime Division 6. Close of Sudjai pull out to show tiger behind him 7. Wide of police and Sudjai with the tiger in cage behind them 8. Close of Sudjai 9. Close of tiger 10. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Sudjai Chantawong, Alleged Animal Trafficker: "I accept I did wrong, and I'm sorry about it. I've told everything to him." (gestures towards police officer) 11. Wide of two police officers 12. Mid of Sudjai standing beside cage, pan to tiger in cage 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Galster, Freeland Foundation: "This arrest will have a very positive impact on destabilising the illegal trade because they just took the money man out of a major trafficking ring. Word will have gotten out today that they've gone for the top and traffickers have not seen this before - police going right for the top of the ring - so this is going to slow things down for the trade which is good for tigers." 14. Various of tiger in cage STORYLINE: Thai police believe they've taken out a major player in a tiger trafficking ring that may have smuggled as many as a thousand animals in the last 10 years. 49-year-old Sudjai Chantawong was arrested on Saturday after a year long hunt. Authorities now hope they can use him to catch the leader of the ring and shut down the network completely. The investigation began with a tiger called Sylvia when last year two Thai men sold her, as a cub, to undercover police. The money was paid into the bank account of a man Sudjai. It took police a year to track their target down but on Saturday they swooped in the northeastern border city of Udon Thani and brought him before the media on Sunday in Bangkok - along with the now one and half year old 220 pound (100 kilograms) Sylvia. Sudjai told reporters he admitted his guilt but said he'd only done it once and got paid less than 200 dollars for his part. However police believe Sudjai was part of a network that is trafficking tigers to China via land routes in Laos and Vietnam for use in the lucrative traditional medicine trade. The head of the ring, believed to be a woman, is still at large but authorities hope this arrest will prove a crucial development in bringing her to justice. "Word will have gotten out today that they've gone for the top and traffickers have not seen this before - police going right for the top of the ring - so this is going to slow things down for the trade which is good for tigers," Steve Galster from the Freeland Foundation, an anti-trafficking group based in Thailand which took part in the investigation, said on Sunday. Wildlife experts say numbers of tigers in the wild have plummeted in recent years because of habitat loss and poaching, which is driven largely by the trade in traditional medicines and souvenirs. Thailand is considered a major trafficking hub. Last year, authorities at Bangkok's international airport found a tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden alongside a stuffed toy tiger in the suitcase of a Thai woman flying to Iran. Earlier this month, undercover anti-trafficking officers at the airport apprehended a 36-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates who was bound for Dubai with suitcases filled with drugged baby leopards, panthers, a bear and several monkeys. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/22a1957ff597e613cebae04e9bb8926c Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork