The Wildlife Trade & Animal Abuse - Tiger Temple - Behind the Cloak of Buddha Cee4life. The Wildlife Trade is a killing game for money, for greed.
It is a sinister business responsible for the desecration of numerous species. As the Tiger species spirals towards extinction, the time to act is now more than ever. In 2007, I worked within the Tiger Temple, Thailand. I became a witness to the systematic genocide of the tigers within temple by way of wildlife trade and many varying abuses. The tigers are abused in every possible way from the collection of their own urine to be squirted in their faces, to beatings so violent, and then the ultimate abuse - sold into the wildlife trade doomed to death.
In Laos the tigers are transferred either to illegal tiger farms or killed instantly for body parts or fur. This is the foundation of the Tiger Temple. There are approximately 2500 adult breeding pairs of tiger left in the wild on our earth, but that number is falling rapidly. There has been a huge outcry to close the Tiger Temple down, this is completely understandable. 2. Frozen tiger parts among Thai police wildlife haul. AFP Wednesday, May 16, 2012 BANGKOK - Thai police on Wednesday discovered the frozen body parts of several tigers and other big cats thought to be destined for buyers in Vietnam and China in a raid on a suburban Bangkok house.
Two men, one Thai and one Vietnamese, were arrested after police found a freezer containing the parts of at least three tigers, one panther and a wild cat. "From our initial interrogation, they said they planned to send the animal parts to a Vietnamese buyer waiting in Laos, but the final destinations are in Vietnam and China," said Police Colonel Apichart Sirisith, Crime Suppression Deputy Commander. The two suspects face 10 years in prison if convicted on charges relating to the illegal possession of wildlife. Thailand, a hub of international smuggling, is one of just 13 countries which host tiger populations. In March Thai authorities seized more than 200 live animals, including tigers and lions among other rare species, in a raid on an illegal wildlife supplier. Eastern cougar declared extinct by US government. The US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the eastern cougar to be officially extinct, Wednesday.
Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition The cougar is also known to many as the catamount, ghost cat, mountain cat, mountain lion, panther, or puma. The eastern cougar has been thought by many to differ from its western counterpart in its tawny color and longer tail. The 100-pound cat was hunted feverishly between the 1700s and 1800s, but could still be seen until the 1930s. It has now been more than 70 years since the last confirmed sighting and though the cat had been put on the endangered species list in 1973, the US Fish and Wildlife Service held off on declaring it extinct until now. One reason for the delay has been the 108 claimed sightings of eastern cougars between 1900 and 2010. The Fish and Wildlife Service began a review of the eastern cougar's status in 2007.