That photo costs about $17. The premium version, where the tiger’s head rests in your lap, goes for around $140. Selling these poses made Thailand’s Tiger Temple roughly $3 million a year, until police raided it in 2016 and pulled 40 dead tiger cubs out of a freezer.
Thailand has about 1,960 tigers locked in cages right now. Almost all of them are at places that sell tourist photos. The most recent Thai government count of wild tigers came back at 179 to 223. There are eight to ten times more tigers in the photo business than tigers out there hunting deer in the forest.
Police forced their way into the Tiger Temple in May 2016 and walked out with 137 live tigers. They also found 40 frozen cubs in a kitchen freezer. Twenty more cubs were floating in jars of preserving fluid. Authorities stopped a temple staff member trying to drive off the property with two whole tiger pelts, ten tiger fangs, and around 1,500 small good-luck charms made from tiger skin.
Speed breeding is what keeps the supply going. Mothers get their cubs taken at two to three weeks old. The females come back into heat much sooner and pop out another litter long before nature would let them. World Animal Protection investigators walked through Thai tiger parks and found half the cats they saw in cages smaller than a one-car garage. A wild tiger covers 10 to 20 miles in a single night.
Cubs work the photo line for a few months. They get passed from tourist to tourist hundreds of times a day. Most are declawed, which is exactly what it sounds like: amputating part of each toe so they cannot scratch a paying customer. Once a cub grows too big or starts pushing back, it is finished with the photo business and too expensive to feed.
The same animals start a second life as product. In 2007, Thailand signed an international treaty banning the sale of tiger parts. Other tiger countries signed too. Authorities still seized 641 tigers, dead or alive, in smuggling busts across Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2011. DNA tests traced 275 of those straight back to the same kind of farms that sell tourist photos. China and Vietnam are the destination, where the parts are sold as tiger bone wine, tiger skin rugs, and traditional medicine.
After the 2016 raid, the government took custody of all 147 rescued tigers. Eighty-six died within three years. Decades of speed breeding had inbred their bloodlines so badly that their immune systems were already gone by the time anyone tried to save them.
I stopped reading at "kekristenan secara historis sebenarnya apolitis" bro Jesus was killed for political reasons karena dianggap menantang kaisar, tiap Jumat Agung tidur kah?
🚫 End Elephant Safaris 🚫
National parks exist to protect wildlife and their natural habitats, not to turn sentient beings into props for human entertainment. Yet, tourists walk into these very parks and demand Elephant Safaris as if an Elephant is a ride, not a life.
After a 7-year ban, Elephant safaris have shockingly been restarted in Jim Corbett and Rajaji National Parks in Uttarakhand, India. Instead of progress, this is a step backward into normalized cruelty.
Behind every “fun safari experience” is a brutal truth:
Elephants are separated from thier mother and captured. They are chained, beaten and “trained” through domination and pain. They are deprived of family bonds, space and freedom. They spend their lives performing one task: carrying humans for profit.
Wild Elephants are meant to roam forests ~ not concrete paths.
Credit: Shivani Singh.
BAYANGKAN. Ketika Presiden Prabowo bilang mau memperluas sawit di Papua, ada ribuan monster seperti ini yang sudah, sedang dan bakal menghabisi hutan Papua.
Foto: 2.000 eskavator & buldozer pesanan Haji Isam (Jhonlin Group) utk garap 2-3 juta hektar food/energy estate di Papua.
same thing with Juicy Luicy, honestly. there was a sexual harassment case involving one of the members, it’s not new information, but people still support them and keep them in their interests anyway.
"Pak Presiden sudah baik loh mau datang ke lokasi bencana, tapi masyarakat yang iri dengki masih saja menyalahkan Presiden. Harusnya kalian itu ya berterima kasih!"
Sayangnya ketika hendak berterima kasih, aku teringat perkataan seorang penulis dari Palestina, Ghassan Kanafani:
@ARSIPAJA BENCI BGT KALO DENGER DIA NGOMONG "SAYA KIRA" "SAYA KIRA"
presiden tuh org yg paling bertanggung jawab atas SELURUH keadaan negara. frasa "saya kira" itu menggambarkan ketidakpastian/opini, ngomong bukan berdasarkan data & fakta.
hidup 280 juta rakyat GABISA DIKIRA-KIRA.
Tesso Nilo is more than a forest, it’s a lifeline for elephants and for us. Conflict and deforestation are pushing this ecosystem to the brink. We need justice for the wildlife that can’t speak for themselves and real action to safeguard what’s left.
#SAVETESSONILO
#WeStandForTessoNilo #SelamatkanGajahSumatra
Last week, Oxford Botanic Garden’s Chris Thorogood (@thorogoodchris1), working with local conservation hero Septian (Deki) Andriki and their local guide Iswandi, saw Rafflesia hasseltii in Sumatra.
Their expedition was supported by @brin_indonesia’s Joko Witono and @unibofficial’s Agus Susatya, whose guidance helped make the journey possible. To see this flower in bloom was an extraordinary team achievement.
This expedition was part of the Community for the Conservation and Research of Rafflesia (CCRR) – an international partnership running since 2022 - made up of academic biologists, foresters, researchers and community practitioners from across the world working on Rafflesia.
Their mission is to document some of the world’s rarest flowers and build a Rafflesia conservation working group – sharing knowledge, tools and best practice to protect these plants long term.
Find out more ⬇️
https://t.co/fdGJHgyQpK