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Tiger Cub Dies at Zoo — To Attract More Tourists

Rhishja Larson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:48:43 +0000

A white tiger cub has died at India’s Indore Zoo after zoo authorities decided to keep a litter of sick cubs on display to attract more tourists.

A short life wasted: One of three white tiger cubs born in March at the Indore Zoo is now dead - due to zoo authorities’ decision to release the cubs prematurely into an enclosure where they could be viewed by tourists.

Tiger Trade Ban & Myth of Free Market Economics

Dr Vandana Prakash — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:28:26 +0000

Some lobbyists are pushing for removal of a ban on trading tiger body parts, citing the importance of a free market economy. The argument claims that the ban must be lifted because it has failed to address the issue head-on. However, as it stands the argument is a falsity used with clear intent of misinforming. The practice of raising tigers in the farms to re-populate in the wild, as of now, seems as facetious. Tiger-farms do great injustice to Traditional Chinese Medicine when they seek to justify their breeding of tigers for their parts for practice of TCM and the associated lifestyle.

Saving the tiger has become an issue fraught with much discussion — and much of it is ill-informed and misleading. On the one hand are the tiger-farm lobby and the so-called “believers of free-market economics” such as John Stossel (ABC 20/20) , Terry Anderson (PERC) and Barun Mitra (Liberty Institute). They want to lift the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban and favor open trade in tiger-parts. They cite the apparent failure of the ban as the primary reason for lifting the ban. Their arguments, they say, derive from free-market economics. On the other hand are numerous (possibly insignificant because they lack the voice) individuals who, lacking voice, have opted for the exit option and have modified their behavior to save the most charismatic of animals, the wild tiger. Alongside are many governments and many, many NGOs that struggle to save the tiger from extinction, that struggle to keep our world one species richer and which work to enable our future generations to look at the king of the forest, the tiger, in reality, not just in picture-books. Apart from humane motives, their arguments are supported by economists, sociologists, zoologists, conservation-biologists, etc.

Zookeeper Offers Live Tiger as Payment in Virginity Auction

Alex Felsinger — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:38:41 +0000

As heavily reported elsewhere, a 22-year-old going by “Natalie Dylan” is auctioning off her virginity through the legal Bunny Ranch brothel in Carson City, Nevada. Well, the auction has reached $3.8 million, but one offer seems more peculiar: a zookeeper has offered a live tiger.

This raises quite a few questions: What zoo does this guy work at? Would it be legal to exchange said tiger for sex? How long will it be until PETA takes a position?