What affects us affects cats
Under pressure from animal rights activists, Tinder, the mobile dating app has urged users not to post photographs of themselves posing with tigers. This is a success for animal advocates. It pleases me. If we could only get trophy hunters to stop as well, the world would be a better place. Peta is also …
The British government is dragging its feet over the banning of wild animals in zoos despite the generally held international view that the British public are animal lovers. We voted this government into power but they appear not to be carrying out the views of the electorate when it comes to zoo animals. The …
The Bangladeshi authorities have stepped up their fight against tiger poachers. They have to because the poachers, funded by big business, usually in China, are winning the battle. Not enough resources are put into protecting the Bengal tiger. Having stepped up their fight against the poachers, six suspected poachers have been shot dead in …
A flash flood which tore through the centre of Tbilisi, Georgia has destroyed the city’s zoo, killing some of the captive animals but releasing others. Thirty-two predators are apparently missing amongst them eight lions, six tigers and several jaguars. Some could have been killed by the flood but the authorities just don’t know what …
A little over a month ago I wrote an article about tiger numbers in India being 30% up. This was world-wide, good news. It gave hope that there was a chance that the Bengal tiger could escape extinction in the wild. Counting tigers (and any of the wild cat species) in the wild has …
A businessman in China has been caught illegally buying, killing and eating three tigers that were smuggled into, China probably from India/Bangladesh. That would make them Bengal tigers, which were almost certainly poached from a reserve. He was jailed for 13 years and fined £160,000 – 1.5m yuan or $250,000 USD. The man is …
An investigation concluded that a tiger handler, David Styles, when presenting a show in an arena in zoo in Queensland, Australia, overstimulated the 120 kg tiger he was with. He was being filmed by the BBC at the time. The handler made himself look different which caught the interest of the tiger. The tiger …
Mr Lowe has opened a big cat safari exhibit in a flea market inside a building next to an airport in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA. I say he has opened it but perhaps he is in the process of doing so because he’d planned to open around the time of Black Friday this year. …
