Pure Nature Specials – The Last Wild Tigers

 

 

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Courage and strength are symbols represented by the mighty tiger, but it is these attributes that make the tiger so sought after by hunters. Will the tiger be chased to extinction, or will the largest feline on Earth be saved?

 

 

Via -Amit Kanungo

The main predator of the tiger is humankind. They have been trapped, poisoned and hunted heavily by humans not only to eliminate threats to livestock, but also for sport, trophies, skins, and sources of traditional medical products. Superstition has surrounded tigers for centuries; their body parts are used in Asian medicines. Necklets of tiger claws are thought to protect a child from “the evil eye“; tiger whiskers are considered either a dreadful poison (in Malaysia), a powerful aphrodisiac (in Indonesia), or an aid to childbirth (in India and Pakistan); the bones, fat, liver and penis of a tiger are prized as medicines.

Humans have also altered the natural habitats of tigers by their destruction and encroachment on the tigers’ feeding range; humans are destroying their habitats by cutting down trees, moving into their preferred locations, polluting the water and air, and hunting their prey. An intense effort is under way to save the endangered tigers. Unfortunately, tigers are still illegally hunted for their fur, bones and other parts to supply markets in China and Taiwan. Tigers have been hunted to near extinction by poachers, and all subspecies have been declared endangered.

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Trafficking of Wildlife Marks Fourth Largest Illegal Global Trade, Worth $19 Billion Annually

Every part of tiger cubs are sold in Laos as a status symbol. (Flickr/digitalart2)

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/trafficking-wildlife-marks-fourth-largest-illegal-global-trade-worth-19-billion-annually

Trafficking of Wildlife Marks Fourth Largest Illegal Global Trade, Worth $19 Billion Annually

ICTMN Staff

December 15, 2012

The illicit trafficking of wildlife took center stage at a recent, high-level briefing for United Nations (UN) ambassadors in New York, reported worldwildlife.org. Wildlife trafficking has reached an unprecedented level, worth at least $19 billion per year, and only surpassed by narcotics, counterfeiting and human trafficking. But the smuggling of wildlife—including endangered species, unregulated and unreported fisheries and illegal timber—is often viewed by governments as an environmental problem. Robert Hormats, the U.S. Department of State’s under-secretary for economic growth, energy and the environment, and World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) CEO Carter Roberts stressed it needs to be treated as a transnational crime and injustice issue. It is believed profits from wildlife trafficking are funding terrorist-related activities, financing civil conflicts and purchasing of weapons.

“Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking,” Hormats said. “And just as we intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking…. They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.”

Criminal syndicates slaughter elephants and rhinos from South Africa nearly out of existence. Their bones are used for ivory, which is laundered and sold in jewelry form, primarily in Thailand, which has the biggest unregulated market for ivory in the world. Tiger cubs are being smuggled in crates from Thailand to Laos, where every part of the cub from its whiskers to its testicles are sold as folk medicine and as ornamental pieces that have become a status symbol.

The WWF, forest rangers, infantry, border patrol police and special-ops army force rangers have been leading an anti-poaching patrol for elephant ivory and tiger parts in Thailand. But high-level traders are rarely arrested, prosecuted, convicted or punished for their crmes. And combating illicit wildlife trafficking is a dangerous job, costing the lives of 1,000 workers in the past decade.

The WWF encourages everyone to take action to stop illicit wildlife trafficking by pledging to never buy products made from endangered species and joining the WWF campaign.

“I appeal to Premier Wen Jiabao to send a clear message to his government, calling for an end to all tiger trade within China.

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http://www.tigertime.info/bantigertrade.html“I appeal to Premier Wen Jiabao to send a clear message to his government, calling for an end to all tiger trade within China. This is to include a call for a zero tolerance policy applied to all trade of all parts and derivatives of tiger and other protected Asian big cats, from all sources.”

Canned hunting is the sick practice of killing an animal in a fenced enclosure for fun.

 Animal Shame

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animal-Shame/225598740853762

Most trophy hunters try to disguise their canned hunts as real hunts in the wild, but ALL trophy hunts of white lions are done inside enclosures. Canne

d hunting is a very controversial form of hunting (it is actually not real hunting), one of the main rules of ethical hunting is that it is a fair chase between the animal and the hunter. High fences stop this been fair chase as the animal has no means of escaping. I have seen videos of some canned hunts where lions are running away and trying to escape and just bouncing off the perimeter fence as a tourist blasts it with a high powered weapon, it is very shocking to see.

Legal to kill a white lion but ILLEGAL to save the life of one! Read this shocking recent story:http://www.whitelions.org/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=24&Itemid=1

The life of a lion in the canned hunting industry:

A few days after the lion is born it is taken from its mother, this is highly destressing for the cubs and the mother. The mother is taken away and made pregnant again, her sole purpose is to be a breeding machine for the trophy hunting outfitter. She spends her whole life giving birth and having her cubs ripped away from her, and she never gets the chance to be a mother. Once her body is useless and can no longer have cubs she is either offered to be shot for a bargain price or just thrown in for free as part of another hunt.

When the cub is taken from its mother it is sent to a petting zoo or a volunteer project, where tourists pay to interact with the cubs. This is very distressing for the cubs who have no means of getting away, cats sleep a lot and cubs especially but they cannot do this because of been constantly picked up for photographs. Volunteers pay thousands of dollars to work on projects that promise that they will be one day released. Volunteers do not care to do any research and realise that any hand raised lion in South Africa cannot be released. These volunteers believe they are doing a good thing but they are just filling the pockets of these murderers and keeping this sick industry alive.

Once the lion is no longer a cub it is sent back to the trophy hunting farm, where it can grow into a suitable trophy for a tourist to shoot. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=352193494860952&set=a.315784881835147.72724.225598740853762&type=3&theater

When it comes time for the lion to be shot, it is released into the larger enclosure. The killers drive around the enclosure looking for the tame, hand raised lion. Meat is often hung out and they wait for the lion to start eating and then open fire as it eats.

I have seen many videos of these hunts and they are shocking, any person who takes part in one of these hunts is a disgrace to the human race. Often the tame lion will be laid undreneath a tree and as it sees the people approach it just glances over and glances away, as it does not see people as a threat. The cowards open fire and take pleasure in watching the animal roll around the floor in agony, then watch the life drain out of its body.

The aftermath is shocking as they parade the dead lion for ridiculous photos as they stand over the lifeless corpse of the tame, hand raised lion. They then return home to their countries to tell tales of how they killed a big bad dangerous man eating lion (they never mention they killed a tame, bottle fed lion inside an enclosure).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMZ9mRcn50

Trophy hunting companies have now found another way to profit from the lions they kill, they are now starting to sell the bones to the Asian medicine market. This is the same market that has wiped many species off the face of the planet and is the biggest threat to tigers and rhino today, the scariest thing is that the South African government are allowing them to do this legally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPxfYFj7Yg

Illegal rhino poaching has risen 3000+% in the past five years and this could happen to lions as well, we are starting to the the exact same patterns with lions as what happened to rhinos, but the SA government do not appear to care. South Africa are even allowing tigers to be shot inside enclosures and their bones sent to Asia. http://www.lionaid.org/blog/category/canned-lions

Avaaz recently started an advertising campaign in airports calling for president Zuma to put an end to the sick lion bone trade. It took around one week for president Zuma to order the posters be pulled down. Avaaz have started an online petition which already has over 700,000 signatures calling for an end to the lion bone trade.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/1_million_to_ban_the_lion_trade_fbb/

 

The life of a lion in the canned hunting industry:

 

Animal Shame

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animal-Shame/225598740853762

 
A few days after the lion is born it is taken from its mother, this is highly distressing for the cubs and the mother. The mother is taken away and made pregnant again, her sole purpose is to be a breeding machine for the trophy hunting outfitter. She spends her whole life giving birth and having her cubs ripped away from her, and she never gets

the chance to be a mother. Once her body is useless and can no longer have cubs she is either offered to be shot for a bargain price or just thrown in for free as part of another hunt.

When the cub is taken from its mother it is sent to a petting zoo or a volunteer project, where tourists pay to interact with the cubs. This is very distressing for the cubs who have no means of getting away, cats sleep a lot and cubs especially, but they cannot do this because of been constantly picked up for photographs. Volunteers pay thousands of dollars to work on projects that promise that they will be one day released. Volunteers do not care to do any research and realise that any hand raised lion in South Africa cannot be released. These volunteers believe they are doing a good thing but they are just filling the pockets of these murderers and keeping this sick industry alive.

Once the lion is no longer a cub it is sent back to the trophy hunting farm, where it can grow into a suitable trophy for a tourist to shoot. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=352193494860952&set=a.315784881835147.72724.225598740853762&type=3&theater

When it comes time for the lion to be shot, it is released into the larger enclosure. The killers drive around the enclosure looking for the tame, hand raised lion. Meat is often hung out and they wait for the lion to start eating and then open fire as it eats.

I have seen many videos of these hunts and they are shocking, any person who takes part in one of these hunts is a disgrace to the human race. Often the tame lion will be laid undreneath a tree and as it sees the people approach it just glances over and glances away, as it does not see people as a threat. The cowards open fire and take pleasure in watching the animal roll around the floor in agony, then watch the life drain out of its body.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.357811990965769.83230.225598740853762&type=1

The aftermath is shocking as they parade the dead lion for ridiculous photos as they stand over the lifeless corpse of the tame, hand raised lion. They then return home to their countries to tell tales of how they killed a big bad dangerous man eating lion (they never mention they killed a tame, bottle fed lion inside an enclosure).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMZ9mRcn50

Trophy hunting companies have now found another way to profit from the lions they kill, they are now starting to sell the bones to the Asian medicine market. This is the same market that has wiped many species off the face of the planet and is the biggest threat to tigers and rhino today, the scariest thing is that the South African government are allowing them to do this legally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPxfYFj7Yg

Illegal rhino poaching has risen 3000+% in the past five years and this could happen to lions as well, we are starting to the the exact same patterns with lions as what happened to rhinos, but the SA government do not appear to care. South Africa are even allowing tigers to be shot inside enclosures and their bones sent to Asia. http://www.lionaid.org/blog/category/canned-lions

Avaaz recently started an advertising campaign in airports calling for president Zuma to put an end to the sick lion bone trade. It took around one week for president Zuma to order the posters be pulled down. Avaaz have started an online petition which already has over 700,000 signatures calling for an end to the lion bone trade.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/1_million_to_ban_the_lion_trade_fbb/

 

Sybelle Foxcroft via cee4life WARNING – EXTREME GRAPHIC FILM SHOWING SLAUGHTER OF LIONS – THIS IS CANNED HUNTING OF LIONS -

 

 

 

 

Sybelle Foxcroft via

cee4life

WARNING – EXTREME GRAPHIC FILM SHOWING SLAUGHTER OF LIONS – THIS IS CANNED HUNTING OF LIONS – In South Africa, the beautiful Lion is bred in captive facilities to be grown and sold to hunting facilities for what is known as Canned Hunting.

Canned Hunting is captive bred Lions inside enclosed areas and hunted/killed for people who have a blood thirsty psychosis and pay to kill a Lion. But before they are adult Lions, they are in facilities that use and exploit the Lion cubs as cuddle toys and photo opportunities for the unaware and/or uneducated tourist. This is what happens. Spread the education and help change the laws that allow these murderous acts. Avaaz.org is trying hard to stop it, please sign unit for this at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_lion_slaughter_for_sex_aides_d/?fbgYadb&pv=58 . This is more than unacceptable, it is allowing criminal psychotic violent behaviour that is not only inhuman but such joy with killing and violence could easily translate onto any human being. Please help end this crime against nature.