Where Tigers are on the Menu

Where Tigers are on the Menu

Tiger farms are horrible places. That we have long known. What we have not known is just how horrible some of them are: they operate as little more than meat factories where the predators are cooped up in small cages where visitors can gawk at the majestic creatures before the…

Another Five Tigers are Dead

Another Five Tigers are Dead

Officials in Vietnam have just made a gruesome discovery: the carcasses of five dead tigers in a wildlife trafficker’s freezer. The internal organs of the Indochinese tigers had been removed, likely for use as ingredients in traditional medicine. And there you have it. Despite heroic efforts by conservationists and wildlife officials…

WWF wants to Double the number of wild Tigers by 2022

WWF wants to Double the number of wild Tigers by 2022

It’s a poignant irony: one of the world’s most endangered species is also one of its mightiest. Tigers have fallen on hard times throughout their ranges across Asia with only a few thousand of them left in the wild from Siberia to India to Malaysia. At every place where numerous tigers once…

WWF tells Nations: ‘Close Tiger Farms!’

WWF tells Nations: ‘Close Tiger Farms!’

Close tiger farms. That’s what the Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has called on governments in Asia to do. The conservationist group issued its call on occasion of International Tiger Day on July 29. Closing such farms, where the animals are bred in captivity and routinely exploited for commercial purposes,…