The Tiger Farms of China-where tigers are bred and slaughtered.
Warning! Graphic photos!
–>Tiger Farm Media Kit For Journalists
This video 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 that would re-ignite demand for tiger parts that could jeopardize wild tiger populations.Tigers raised on these farms are weak and malnourished, kept in cages from birth to death. Poaching wild tigers is a lot less expensive than raising these farmed animals, and if the ban on the trade is lifted, it’ll be like declaring open season on wild tigers.
Images are from the International Tiger Coalition and may be freely used to illustrate any articles or reports on the issue, but please give appropriate credit to Save The Tiger Fund.
Stockpiles of Dead Tigers Should be Destroyed, Experts Urge China 27 July 2007, Beijing – Disturbing new images of tiger carcasses piled
up in cold storage at one of Chinas largest “tiger farms” raise
questions about enforcement of tiger trade bans in effect in China and internationally.
Sadly, tigers are killed for their skins and also for their body parts.
There is the belief in traditional chinese medicines that body parts from the tiger can be used as an ingredient to cure certain ailments.
None of this has been proven.
We need to stop the death of this magnificent creature NOW, as it is the guardian of the forest, along with those who depend on the forest for their lives.
We do not need to eat tiger penis soup, drink tiger bone wine, or wear tiger skins to show we are wealthy.
