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A Sumatran tiger subadult at the Toronto Zoo is framed by fencing.
Though I'd love to see a world where zoos don't need to exist, that world is far from reality. The truth is, the wilds are less friendly for tigers these days and zoo tigers can be well provided for if given the opportunity. Tigers in the wild need these zoo tigers to educate the public about the plight about their wild cousins. I know without them, I wouldn't be involved in tiger conservation.
There are people out there who feel that zoos could never be good enough for animals like tigers, who naturally have a large home range and they do have a point. However, we shouldn't try to shun these places, but support them. Zoos are not going away any time soon so the best we can do, if we love animals like tigers, is to support them and offer tigers the best possible care and the opportunity to educate people (unlike private ownership).
I am constantly surprised when people who care about animals chose to combat each other over the issue of zoos...we all care for the same things and want to see both individual tigers and the species flourish. I think we should stop building walls and start building bridges. Tigers and other animals deserve our united efforts in these troubled times.
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Tigers are the largest of the big cats and are exclusively found in Asia from India to Vietnam, from Indonesia to the Russian Far East. The tiger can be divided into 9 subspecies: 4 are currently critically endangered and 3 are already extinct. Though estimations of tiger populations only a few years ago was 5,500-6,000, today populations are likely closer to 3,500 and are still declining. Dramatic declines of the tiger in India, thought to host the majority of the world’s tigers, have fallen to less than 1,411. Overall, the past decade has seen a 40% reduction in tiger habitat, which now represents a mere 7% of its historic range. Poaching is a significant problem throughout the tiger’s range, the demand for its body parts in traditional medicines, tonics, and exotic dishes driving a lucrative trade that is wiping out entire populations. Long-term threats include habitat fragmentation and prey depletion, which is accelerating the tiger’s demise and subsequently reducing the long-term genetic viability of many populations.
If you want to help, the best for you to do is to educate yourself (http://www.savethetigerfund.org), never buy products made from tigers or endangered species (http://www.wildaid.org), and tell others. Contact me for more information.
Though I'd love to see a world where zoos don't need to exist, that world is far from reality. The truth is, the wilds are less friendly for tigers these days and zoo tigers can be well provided for if given the opportunity. Tigers in the wild need these zoo tigers to educate the public about the plight about their wild cousins. I know without them, I wouldn't be involved in tiger conservation.
There are people out there who feel that zoos could never be good enough for animals like tigers, who naturally have a large home range and they do have a point. However, we shouldn't try to shun these places, but support them. Zoos are not going away any time soon so the best we can do, if we love animals like tigers, is to support them and offer tigers the best possible care and the opportunity to educate people (unlike private ownership).
I am constantly surprised when people who care about animals chose to combat each other over the issue of zoos...we all care for the same things and want to see both individual tigers and the species flourish. I think we should stop building walls and start building bridges. Tigers and other animals deserve our united efforts in these troubled times.
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Tigers are the largest of the big cats and are exclusively found in Asia from India to Vietnam, from Indonesia to the Russian Far East. The tiger can be divided into 9 subspecies: 4 are currently critically endangered and 3 are already extinct. Though estimations of tiger populations only a few years ago was 5,500-6,000, today populations are likely closer to 3,500 and are still declining. Dramatic declines of the tiger in India, thought to host the majority of the world’s tigers, have fallen to less than 1,411. Overall, the past decade has seen a 40% reduction in tiger habitat, which now represents a mere 7% of its historic range. Poaching is a significant problem throughout the tiger’s range, the demand for its body parts in traditional medicines, tonics, and exotic dishes driving a lucrative trade that is wiping out entire populations. Long-term threats include habitat fragmentation and prey depletion, which is accelerating the tiger’s demise and subsequently reducing the long-term genetic viability of many populations.
If you want to help, the best for you to do is to educate yourself (http://www.savethetigerfund.org), never buy products made from tigers or endangered species (http://www.wildaid.org), and tell others. Contact me for more information.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Tiger
Size 533 x 800px
File Size 391.2 kB
it's the way of humans: bickering is bliss. everybody'sd opinion is more important than everybody else's, and it's hard to understand this, and even harder to try and overcome it. I try, and most often I fail.
since one's own truth is the only one that matters, those who invariably think of zoos being prisons (and technically, they are), and only a free animal is a happy one even if it's outside it's natuiral habitate are the same who would free, and release into the wild, animals from test laboratories without thinking twice with what hideous things those poor critters might be infected with. (see also: Plague Dogs, one of the few cartoons without a really happy ending)
and suddenly environmentalists wonder where all those foreign animals come about...
they won't listen. they do what they think is right, even if it's paying some heartless schmuck to skin a dog alive so they can prove a point which never was there. they will destroy everything disregarding all facts, because them facts don't fit.
but the true problem are those who stand back and watch, even though they could do something about it.
since one's own truth is the only one that matters, those who invariably think of zoos being prisons (and technically, they are), and only a free animal is a happy one even if it's outside it's natuiral habitate are the same who would free, and release into the wild, animals from test laboratories without thinking twice with what hideous things those poor critters might be infected with. (see also: Plague Dogs, one of the few cartoons without a really happy ending)
and suddenly environmentalists wonder where all those foreign animals come about...
they won't listen. they do what they think is right, even if it's paying some heartless schmuck to skin a dog alive so they can prove a point which never was there. they will destroy everything disregarding all facts, because them facts don't fit.
but the true problem are those who stand back and watch, even though they could do something about it.
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