Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

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Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

 

[there4eyeM]

Congrats go out to all those broad chested, he-man hunters.

 

[sealybobo]

Sad...

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

Sad we don't breed less and leave them their natural habitat. If there was a God it would have saved the tigers not us. Reduce our population by half and the tigers would have been fine. So would the entire planet

 

[tyroneweaver]

I knew a GI that had a tiger latch onto him in Vietnam and the only way they got him off was to shoot shaving creme up the tigers nose.

 

[sealybobo]

I knew a GI that had a tiger latch onto him in Vietnam and the only way they got him off was to shoot shaving creme up the tigers nose.

Same thing you do to a Vietnam prostitute if she won't stop giving you yum yums

 

[Unkotare]

Sad...

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

Sad we don't breed less and leave them their natural habitat. If there was a God it would have saved the tigers not us. Reduce our population by half and the tigers would have been fine. So would the entire planet

As usual, you make no sense whatsoever.

 

[waltky]

Temple to face charges over dead tigers...

Thailand Tiger Temple to face charges over dead cubs
Thu, 02 Jun 2016 - Thai authorities says they will press charges against the controversial Tiger Temple, after 40 dead cubs were found during a raid on the site.

Wildlife authorities in Thailand have said they will press charges against a Buddhist temple where the bodies of 40 dead tiger cubs were found. The discovery came during a week-long effort to relocate 137 tigers from the tourist site in Kanchanaburi province. The "Tiger Temple" operators have been accused of wildlife trafficking, animal abuse and illegally possessing carcasses and endangered species. They deny all allegations and resisted previous attempts to remove the tigers.

BBC visit to the Tiger Temple in 2012

The tiger cub corpses were found in a freezer at the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple complex on Wednesday, along with body parts from other animals. Police Col Bandith Meungsukhum told AFP the cubs would have been one or two days old, but it was not clear how long they had been dead. They will be DNA tested to see whether they were related to other tigers at the site. National parks official Adisorn Noochdumrong said a keeper had been "told to place the carcasses when they died in cold storage". He told AFP the temple operators could be charged with keeping the carcasses without permission.

The temple has previously said it decided in 2010 to stop cremating cubs which died soon after birth. It has always denied trafficking allegations. Authorities started the operation to remove all 137 living tigers from the temple on Monday. Dozens have already been removed. The site, west of Bangkok, is a popular tourist attraction, with visitors able to post for photos with the animals for a fee. It has been closed to the public since the raid. Animal activists and former workers have claimed the tigers are mistreated and kept in small concrete cages.

Thailand Tiger Temple to face charges over dead cubs - BBC News

 

[there4eyeM]

Humanity isn't doing a very good job of controlling its massive overpopulation. The consequences will be grim.

 

[Unkotare]

Humanity isn't doing a very good job of controlling its massive overpopulation. The consequences will be grim.

There is no "overpopulation."

 

[Mr Natural]

It won't be long before insects, rodents, food animals, and humans are the only living things left on this planet.

 

[Unkotare]

It won't be long before insects, rodents, food animals, and humans are the only living things left on this planet.

That will never be the case.

 

[martybegan]

Sad...

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

Sad we don't breed less and leave them their natural habitat. If there was a God it would have saved the tigers not us. Reduce our population by half and the tigers would have been fine. So would the entire planet

Are you volunteering?

 

[sealybobo]

Sad...

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

Sad we don't breed less and leave them their natural habitat. If there was a God it would have saved the tigers not us. Reduce our population by half and the tigers would have been fine. So would the entire planet

Are you volunteering?

Yes. I'm having no kids. You're welcome

 

[martybegan]

Sad...

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

Sad we don't breed less and leave them their natural habitat. If there was a God it would have saved the tigers not us. Reduce our population by half and the tigers would have been fine. So would the entire planet

Are you volunteering?

Yes. I'm having no kids. You're welcome

Thank you for not adding to the gene pool.

 

[there4eyeM]

Humanity isn't doing a very good job of controlling its massive overpopulation. The consequences will be grim.

There is no "overpopulation."

Overpopulation is a relative term, and relative to reason, the earth is overpopulated by humans.

 

[Unkotare]

Humanity isn't doing a very good job of controlling its massive overpopulation. The consequences will be grim.

There is no "overpopulation."

Overpopulation is a relative term, and relative to reason, the earth is overpopulated by humans.

No it's not.

 

[Unkotare]

Sad...

Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia

Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom’s forests. Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats. The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said. “Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.

Sad we don't breed less and leave them their natural habitat. If there was a God it would have saved the tigers not us. Reduce our population by half and the tigers would have been fine. So would the entire planet

Are you volunteering?

Yes. I'm having no kids. You're welcome

Thank you for not adding to the gene pool.

The thanks go to the 100% of women in the world who find him repulsive.

 

[waltky]

Tiger tourist trap...

Three monks charged in Thailand as tiger potions, charms point to illicit trade
Thu Jun 2, 2016 - Thai authorities charged three Buddhist monks on Thursday after they were caught trying to smuggle tiger skins and charms made from tiger parts out a temple which monks said was a tiger sanctuary but critics said was a money-spinning tourist trap.

The Buddhist temple west of Bangkok has long been popular with tourists who paid about $20 each to get in and pose for pictures with its tigers, and to feed cubs and walk among them. But the temple had come under mounting allegations of abuse and illicit wildlife trafficking and authorities armed with a court order raided it on Monday to confiscate the 137 tigers found there and take them to a government wildlife sanctuary.

The discovery on Thursday of the tiger skins and charms, or amulets, made from skins in a pick-up truck, and jars containing the bodies of tiger cubs in the temple, pointed to an even more lucrative business than thought. "The jars have labels, so I think they've made medicine here," said Adisorn Nuchdamrong, deputy director-general of the Department of National Parks, who has been overseeing the raid to remove the temple's tigers and search its premises. Authorities found 20 glass jars containing baby tigers and tiger organs in a "laboratory" in the temple, reinforcing suspicion it was making folk medicine, he said.

A Buddhist monk walks past a tiger before officials start moving them from Thailand's controversial Tiger Temple, a popular tourist destination which has come under fire in recent years over the welfare of its big cats in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand​

Tiger parts are used in traditional Chinese medicine, a multi-million dollar business that has driven tigers in the wild to the brink of extinction and fueled the rearing of tigers in parts of Asia, especially in China. "We will discover more as we search on," Adisorn told Reuters. Two temple devotees and a monk found in the pick-up truck, and two monks who helped load it, were charged under wildlife laws, Adisorn said. Representatives of the temple were not available for comment. The confiscation of the tiger products followed the discovery on Wednesday of 40 dead tiger cubs in a freezer.

Wildlife officials suspect the cubs were being preserved for use in potions. Thailand is well known as a hub for illicit trafficking of wildlife products, including ivory. Activists had for years criticized the temple and urged tourists to shun it, and complained that wildlife protection laws were poorly enforced. The Department of National Parks had removed 84 out of the 137 tigers found at the temple by Thursday. Workers have been using tranquilizer darts to sedate the animals before lifting them into cages and on to trucks for the journey to the government sanctuary.

Three monks charged in Thailand as tiger potions, charms point to illicit trade

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Thai Tiger Temple's long history of controversy
Wed, 01 Jun 2016 - At least 137 tigers are being rescued from a temple in Thailand. But why is this happening and what will now happen to the animals?

Thailand's Tiger Temple is causing more controversy this week as authorities move to put an end to the popular tourist attraction. As the BBC explains, the temple has long been shrouded in allegations of animal abuse and trafficking.

What is the 'Tiger Temple'?

Tiger Temple, also known as Wat Pha Luang Ta Bu Yannasampanno, is located in Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province, west of Bangkok. It received its first tiger cub in 1999 and an additional seven more in the same year. The temple was recorded to have at least 137 tigers in 2016. The majority of the tigers are Bengal tigers, with others being hybrid breeds. There are also reports of jackals, hornbills and Asian bears being kept in the sanctuary without the necessary permits.

Visitors are charged 600 Thai Baht ($16, £11) for entry into the temple, with additional costs to pet or feed the tigers. And thousands of people flock to it every year to have their pictures taken with the animals. There are other places in Thailand that also charge a fee to have close encounters with tigers, but this is the biggest and most popular with tourists by far, according to the Wildlife Friends Foundation of Thailand (WFFT), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has actively been campaigning for the release of the tigers since 2004.

What is the controversy?

Buddhist monks who run the temple have long faced accusations of mistreatment of tigers, illegal breeding and animal trafficking, all of which they have repeatedly denied. Former workers have claimed the tigers are beaten, not well fed, in need of veterinary care and kept in small concrete cages. Earlier this year a National Geographic report alleged the monks are operating a for-profit breeding business.

There is evidence to suggest that wildlife trafficking has taken place, says the WFFT, without providing specific examples. In December 2014, three adult male tigers vanished from the temple. They had been micro-chipped, a legal requirement for captive endangered animals in Thailand, which allows them to be tracked. The temple's veterinarian Somchai Visasmongkolchai later came forward after resigning from his post to say that the microchips had been cut out of the three males.

What do the monks say?

 

[waltky]

Caught red-handed...

Thai 'Tiger Temple' monks caught fleeing with tiger skins and fangs, officials say
June 2, 2016 -- A Buddhist monk and two other men were detained Thursday while allegedly trying to leave Thailand's "Tiger Temple" with tiger skins and fangs, just one day after 40 dead tiger cubs were discovered inside a freezer at the animal sanctuary.

Thai authorities said operators of the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple, located in the western Kanchanaburi province, were trying to smuggle out the animal contraband, which included two full-length tiger skins, 700 amulets made with tiger parts and 10 tiger fangs. Operators of the temple are accused ofwildlife trafficking and animal abuse. Buddhist monks and other workers on the site deny the allegations. "This confiscation shows that the temple is likely involved in illegal tiger trade. They are clearly violating the law in selling, distributing or transferring the protected animals or their parts," Teunchai Noochdumrong, director of of the Wildlife Conservation Office, told the BBC.

The country's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said Thursday some 80 of the more than 140 live tigers have been removed from the temple. The remainder of the animals will be removed in the coming days. Officials began in May removing live tigers from the tourist attraction. On Wednesday, local authorities announced they found, the carcasses of frozen, decaying tiger cubs in a freezer.

Thai 'Tiger Temple' monks caught fleeing with tiger skins and fangs, officials say

 

[anotherlife]

Terrible. There is nothing to stop these poachers.

Maybe ...if endangered animals are a currency, then we can make a currency out of those poachers too. How about we can trade their organs. That may be worth something, and would finance a poaching on poachers industry, which will be fun.