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Ten Thousand Tigers
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That's the number - ten thousand - of tigers privately held in captivity in the USA today. 10,000.
The number of tigers that live in the wild, in their native habitat ?
Five thousand.
That's right - there are twice as many tigers held in captivity than exist in nature. And they are often kept as house pets. This is nature's top predator !
Sorry, I dont have a web link - I just read this in BBC Wildlife Magazine.
I gets worse - the USA has recently voted to lift restrictions on imports of live and dead animals that are restricted in the rest of the world. That's right - you can kill, say, an orangutan, and US customs won't stop you importing it's body into the country !
What the hell is going on ?
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Sad, but if those 10,000 weren't in zoos, they'd probably be dead.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
Sad, but if those 10,000 weren't in zoos, they'd probably be dead.
They would be better off dead, to be honest.
Really, the ones that weren't taken from the wild will have been bred in captivity, so they wouldn't even have existed if it wasn't for the pet market.
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The rest of the world is going to kill off their endangered species.
If we allow those species to be imported, we will eventually corner that market.
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Do you want forgiveness or respect?
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Originally posted by Gee4orce:
They would be better off dead, to be honest.
Touche'
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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So much for the balance of nature... in addition to that we are destroying our coral reefs  maybe that's why there is a rise in all sorts of diseases.
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Tigers are cool. Tigers have always been cool. Tigers will always be cool. To collect them is to understand nature's greatest gift of grace and power.
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Originally posted by beb:
Tigers are cool. Tigers have always been cool. Tigers will always be cool. To collect them is to understand nature's greatest gift of grace and power.
Whether they are cool or not is besides the point. There are millions of species that aren't cool, that are just as endangered. I don't think we really appreciate, in our consumer society, where we discard anything and everything, what extinction really means. It means that a whole form of life is gone - forever.
Forever is a very long time.
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