Phuket Zoo is notorious for their terrible treatment and neglect of animals. Just last month we shared a petition with the goal to shut them down after what happened with Dumbo the elephant. Dumbo was seen being forced to perform unnatural tricks, dancing, and “raving” at Phuket Zoo despite appearing skeletal. The baby elephant was […]
Tag: tigers
South Africa selling tiger and lion hunts to Chinese nouveau riche
Critically endangered tigers, considered to be ‘functionally extinct’ in China, are now offered by several South African hunting businesses. Since tigers are primarily defined as an exotic species in South Africa, the captive breeding, trading and hunting of this CITES Appendix I species is unregulated, with an estimated 60 mostly unlicensed tiger breeders, including several […]
Petition: Ettore Weber’s tigers turned on him
Circus trainers abuse animals until they’re so terrified that they’ll perform ridiculous, demeaning, and often painful tricks. It was during a training session that four tigers snapped, killing circus trainer Ettore Weber during a rehearsal yesterday evening in Italy, just one hour before a Circo Orfei show was scheduled to start. Weber, seen during a […]
Satpura one of India’s least-known national parks
Satpura Tiger Reserve is possibly central India’s least-known national parks, but is emerging as one of India’s must visit wildlife destinations. The reserve itself covers an area of 524 square kilometers, and along with the adjoining Bori and Panchmarhi Sanctuaries forms one of the larger Tiger reserves. Set up in 1981 and situated south of […]
POLL: Should the commercial trade in captive-bred tigers be banned?
The first thing that hit the inspectors was the smell. It was a sweltering midsummer day in Prague, and they had just opened an unplugged freezer filled with the rotting remains of tigers, lions and cougars. Pavla Rihova, the lead environmental inspector on the scene, said she had never seen anything like it. “I have […]
China Just Reversed a Ban on Using Tiger Bones and Rhino Horns
Conservationists are expressing extreme concern and disappointment over a controversial announcement from China’s government that it will be reversing a ban on the use of tiger bones and rhino horns in research and traditional medicine. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), China has had a ban on the use of tiger bones and rhino […]
A tribe in India just sent us this letter about tigers
Deep in the Indian jungle, elders in an indigenous tribe called the Chenchu gather to write a letter to the outside world. The Chenchu are going through this trouble to talk to you because they are afraid. Lately, the government has been trying to get them to leave the jungle. They live on what has […]
Rescued Circus Lions Take Their First Steps on Grass
It’s hard to imagine having to spend your entire life in a cage, only to be let out to be used as a performer in a circus. Sadly that was the case for five lions who never experienced anything else …until now. These lucky five lions, including Sasha, Kimba, Nena, Tarzan and Tanya, were recently […]
