Every Thai worker gets half a sack of rice per month. If they want to eat any meat, they have to catch it. They use techniques from biblical times - catapults, bits of string and things they find lying around the farm. The National Parks Authority has begun to mobilise children to roam the countryside and remove the traps set by the hunters. Most are simple lassoes, hung on a raised fence around an orchard, which strangle the wild animals.
Some traps are more sinister - pits in the ground with spears to impale a gazelle.
There are even foot snares attached to bent trees, which swing the animal into the air like the traps laid for US troops in Vietnam. Sometimes a ranger will come across a pile of quills and a skull - the remains of a porcupine dinner. The arrival of the Thai workers is an unintended consequence of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli farms used to employ Palestinian labor until the mid-'90s, when unrest led the government to close off the Occupied Territories so the workers could not get to the fields. The solution was to import labor.