Having white tigers on display in zoos – an appalling logic?
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8895 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…
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…
Two major tiger conservation organisations join forces
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4908 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…
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,…
about zoos and their mission regarding breeding endangered species, nature conservation, biodiversity and education, which of course relates to the evolution of species.