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Obser­va­tions and opin­ions con­cern­ing zoos, evo­lu­tion, nature con­ser­va­tion and the way we treat/​support the ecosys­tems which are sup­posed to serve us.

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  • 201430NovSun

    Hav­ing white tigers on dis­play in zoos – an appalling logic?

    Infor­ma­tion
    9314 hit(s) | white tiger, con­ser­va­tion, breed­ing, dys­func­tional zoo
    Zoos’ mis­sion The mis­sion of mod­ern zoo­log­i­cal gar­dens (zoos) is, or should be, focussed on main­tain­ing global bio­di­ver­sity — pre­vent extinc­tion of endan­gered species — using var­i­ous instru­ments. Con­ser­va­tion of wild fauna and flora is one of them. This is done via efforts with their ani­mal col­lec­tions and endan­gered species breed­ing pro­grammes, and ulti­mately return­ing cap­tive bred indi­vid­u­als into the wild. Addi­tion­ally, is being applied by financ­ing and exe­cut­ing con­ser­va­tion efforts in the…

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  • 201314DecSat

    Tiger Tem­ple man­age­ment shows the worst of bud­dhist monks

    Infor­ma­tion
    7010 hit(s) | endan­gered species, tiger, Thai­land, ani­mal wel­fare, con­ser­va­tion, zoo
    Tigers are being exploited by bud­dhist monks in Thai­land, which proves that these monks have sim­i­lar desires as the com­mon man, one of them: being inde­pen­dent from char­ity. Unfor­tu­nately, they use decep­tion and abuse tigers to achieve this inde­pen­dency. It has been a while since I first read about the Tiger Tem­ple and its busi­ness. I couldn’t believe what I read and I was aston­ished by the video footage avail­able on the web. Until then, the relaxed atti­tude of bud­dhists towards life and their…

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  • 201125DecSun

    Two major tiger con­ser­va­tion organ­i­sa­tions join forces

    Infor­ma­tion
    5210 hit(s) | tiger, con­ser­va­tion, NGO
    I would like to con­grat­u­late Pan­thera and Save the Tiger Fund with their swift response to my request (see my blog of 29.05.2011). They joined forces in their activ­i­ties which focus on tiger con­ser­va­tion. When you read their argu­ments in the press release of 7 July 2011, there is only one thing I can say: I could not have said it any bet­ter. And per­son­ally I think this should be rewarded. There­fore, in addi­tion to my own dona­tion I would like to call upon any­one who sup­ports the idea of tiger…

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  • 201125DecSun

    Genetic source for re-​introduction of wild tigers in Kaza­khstan too small?

    Infor­ma­tion
    5317 hit(s) | diver­sity, genetic diver­sity, amur, tiger, sur­vival, captivity
    In April this year, 2011, we were pleas­antly sur­prised by a plan that was launched by the Kaza­khstan gov­ern­ment to rein­tro­duce wild tigers in part of the coun­try where the species went extinct in the last cen­tury. A unique tiger nature reserve will be estab­lished, accord­ing Prime Min­is­ter Masi­mov, in the south­ern part of the Lake Balkhash area, the orig­i­nal habi­tat of the Turan tiger, or Caspian tiger (Pan­thera tigris vir­gata). The Caspian tiger, which once ranged through­out the humid forests,…

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    Moos’ Blog

    Obser­va­tions and opin­ions con­cern­ing zoos, evo­lu­tion, nature con­ser­va­tion and the way we treat/​support the ecosys­tems which are sup­posed to serve us

    No way that tro­phy hunt­ing can pre­vent species’ extinc­tion in a sus­tain­able manner

    201817Jan17:12

    No way that tro­phy hunt­ing can pre­vent species’ extinc­tion in a sus­tain­able manner

    Infor­ma­tion
    pub­lished 17 Jan­u­ary 2018 | mod­i­fied 17 Jan­u­ary 2018
    No way that trophy hunting can prevent species’ extinction in a sustainable manner

    The con­ser­va­tion through hunt­ing model has led to many, some­times heated, debates. Per­son­ally, I can­not under­stand why a per­son should kill an ani­mal when the ani­mal isn’t an imme­di­ate threat to that per­son or isn’t an indis­pens­able part of that person’s diet. But when the con­ser­va­tion value is proven I am pre­pared to adopt the model in my thoughts.

    When you search the inter­net you can find many arti­cles that address the model and the accom­pa­ny­ing debate, but some inter­est­ing thoughts I came across in a recently pub­lished arti­cle enti­tled ‘Big game hunters: We’re the answer to pre­vent­ing extinc­tion’ made me aware of how twisted some of the rea­son­ing is. There­fore, I com­ment on a few of those that stood out to me.

    The price on the head of a

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    Goal: 7000 tigers in the wild

    Tiger range countries map

    “Tiger map” (CC BY 2.5) by Sander­son et al., 2006.

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