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World Bank Urges End to Tiger Farming
Animals  (tags: animals, tiger farms, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 137 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Experimenting with tiger farming is too risky and could drive wild tigers further toward extinction, according to the World Bank.
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Save the Tiger
Animals  (tags: tigers, China, tiger farms, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, endangered, extinction, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 516 days ago - latimes.com
<p>Only 4,000 are left in the wild. By letting farmers raise them, China is making the situation worse. </p>
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Tigers Under Threat
Animals  (tags: tigers, wildlife trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, tiger farms, environment, habitat, endangered, extinction, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 516 days ago - ifaw.org
<p>A new and significant threat to tigers in the wild comes from large scale tiger farms in China. Tigers are being speed-bred at these farms to supply tiger bone and other body parts for commercial trade in the hope that China will one day allow the</p>
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Amir Vazir
Animals  (tags: tigers, reserves, tiger farms, animals, breeding for body parts, environment, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, AnimalCruelty, endangered, extinction, habitat, conservation )

Cher
- 547 days ago - economictimes.indiatimes.com
Last winter, Amir Vazir spent a weekend at the Kanha wild life sanctuary, where we would wake up at daybreak to go looking for tigers. Amir Vazir is not accustomed to rising before noon, so this was quite a feat. But despite all our strenuous efforts,
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The Time I Got Drunk Off Tiger Wine
Animals  (tags: tiger farms, breeding, tourist traps, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, habitat, endangered, extinction, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 563 days ago - gadling.com
At a UN meeting last June in The Hague, the Netherlands, China's tiger-breeding program was criticized for at best creating tourist traps, and at worst being flat-out farms for the animals. Indeed the Hengdaohezi facility was developed as a government
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Make the Tiger Trade Ban Permanent - PETITION
Animals  (tags: tiger farms, tiger trade, vanishing, extinction, chinese medicine trade, animal cruelty, wild animals )

Simone
- 589 days ago - community.hsus.org
Illegal markets in China drive most tiger poaching and illegal trade. To its credit, China has taken many steps to stem this problem; however, its commitment to ending tiger trade is now wavering. TAKE ACTION Join more than 93,000 people who have
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The Facts and Fallacies of Tiger Farming
Animals  (tags: tiger farming, truths, myths, wild tigers, disappearing, tigers, endangered, tiger farms, breeding, chinese medicine, tigers killed )

Simone
- 610 days ago - savethetigerfund.org
ASSUMPTION: Legalizing domestic tiger trade is the sovereign right of any nation. FACTS: CITES Resolution Conf. 12.5 asks Parties to prohibit trade in tiger parts and derivatives, both internationally and domestically, even from captive-bred specimens.
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Protection, Not Farming, With Protect the Tiger
Animals  (tags: tiger farming, tiger farms, tigers slaughered, breed, wildlife trafficking, cruelty )

Simone
- 611 days ago - savethetigerfund.org
INDIA's tiger debacle has shown that small scattered populations of tigers in fragmented forests can be killed in a matter of weeks if protection machinery is not in place, does not function well, or does not have political backing. And there has been
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End China Tiger Farms
Animals  (tags: edn tiger farming, tiger farms, factory farms, tigers killed, wildlife trafficking trade )

Simone
- 626 days ago - bigcatrescue.org
More than 30 organizations, representing millions of people around the world, are calling upon the Chinese government to stand firm, to maintain its 14-year tiger trade ban, to close down tiger farms and to increase investment in stopping illegal tiger
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The Horrific World of Tigers in Tiger Farms
Animals  (tags: tigers, abuse, torture, cruelty, tiger farms, tiger slaughter, suffering, abuse, extinction, endangered )

Simone
- 844 days ago - bigcatrescue.org
More than 30 organizations, representing millions of people around the world, are calling upon the Chinese government to stand firm, to maintain its 14-year tiger trade ban, to close down tiger farms and to increase investment in stopping illegal tiger
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Tigers Dying Out
Animals  (tags: beautiful tigers, extinction, killing, poaching, tiger farms, endangered, dying out, slaughter, wildlife, sadness, crime )

Simone
- 846 days ago - 7days.ae
India may have just 1,300 to 1,500 tigers left - less than half of the number believed to exist five years ago - conservationists say. The final results of a state-by-state census are expected in December but at a conservation meeting during the week,
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Wildlife Conservationists Oppose Tiger Farms
Animals  (tags: tiger farms, cruelty, suffering, captive tigers, prisons, killed, extinction, endangered )

Simone
- 848 days ago - hindu.com
Opposing legalising of trade in tiger parts as a measure to protect the endangered animal, wildlife conservationists today claimed that it was the growing demand for tigers in China which had fuelled the decline of the species in India through poaching.
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The Cruelty of Tiger Farms
Animals  (tags: tigers, tiger farms, suffering, killing, slaughter, endangered, cruelty, extinction )

Simone
- 856 days ago - savethetigerfund.org
This page contains a selection of tiger farm images from the Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Mountain village in Guilin, China. Farms like these are selling tiger bone wine and other products, and lobbying for the lifting of a 14-year ban on trade in tiger parts
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"The Risk of Taking the Wrong Decision With a Critically Endangered Species Like the Tiger Is Too High." Dr. Urs Breitenmoser -
Animals  (tags: endangered, tigers, extinction, Big Cats, tiger farms )

Prima
- 860 days ago - carnivoreconservation.org
"The risk of taking the wrong decision with a critically endangered species like the tiger is too high," advocating a stay on the current ban.The risk of doing nothing was equally great, since given current trends the tiger was likely to go extinct
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Asia's Tigers Are Threatened Again
Animals  (tags: asia's tigers, endangered, extinction, wildlife, poaching, slaughgter, killing, tiger farms, cruelty )

Simone
- 861 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Under the blazing sun outside Harbin, in northeast China, Tiger No. 31 trots alongside a van packed with Chinese and foreign tourists. The van stops. The driver chucks a live chicken out the window. The 250-kilogram Siberian tiger pounces. Cameras snap
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