TORONTO, February 23: A study by worldwide animal welfare
charity World Animal Protection has shown that Thailand's contentious Tiger
Temple Co. Ltd. is intending to re- commence beneath the new name Golden Tiger
(Thailand) Co. Ltd.
The charity is tremendously worried about these events, because
of the terrible conditions as well as circumstances that resulted in the shutting
of Tiger Temple, and is urging the Thai government not to give out a zoo authorization
to Golden Tiger (Thailand) Co. Ltd. to launch one more location.
Tiger Temple Co. Ltd, once a famous tourist lure owing to
its enormous assortment of tigers, was verified to have no less than 147 tigers
in 2016. After years of accusations of unlawful rearing and trading of the
tigers and their parts, in May of previous year over 500 officers from
Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) stormed
the site unearthing dead cubs in freezers along with tiger skins, amulets as
well as tiger teeth trinkets.
The Golden Tiger (Thailand) Co. Ltd. is presently building a
new site in Kanchanaburi (in the West of Thailand) and have previously been delivered
a temporary license by the DNP for this new business scheme. Nonetheless, a complete
zoo authorization will not be delivered unless they fulfill 11 listed settings inside
six months. These comprise enclosures considered big enough for the tigers and
vet care, but disturbingly it neglects to veto breeding or tourist contacts
with tigers at the planned new location.
Similarly, legal cases and police analyses into the unlawful
wildlife trade accusations against Tiger Temple Co. Ltd. are still continuing,
and conceding a zoo authorization would permit them to persist operating a
tiger trade that possibly entertains brutality.
In 2016, World Animal Protection submitted a plea to the DNP
urging a comprehensive probe into all confined tiger facilities in Thailand,
and to sanction the breeding of tigers at commercial locations which offer no protection
advantage for tigers in the wild.
Dr. Jan Schmidt-Burbach, senior wildlife advisor at World
Animal Protection revealed, “Tiger farms have nothing to do with conservation –
they just bring extreme suffering to these wild animals whilst living in
appalling conditions.
These venues need to be stopped in their tracks because they
clearly have links to the dark side of wildlife trafficking rings."
Preceding year World Animal Protection published a report on
tigers utilized for amusement in Thailand which acknowledged a 33% upsurge in
the number of tigers at tourism facilities throughout a five-year phase.
The chief welfare apprehensions seen by the investigators at
these tourist sites revealed the following:
Tiger cubs brutally disconnected from their mothers, two to
three weeks after they are born. Young cubs exploited as photo props with visitors,
continuously seen and mistreated hundreds of times a day, which can result in
strain and wound. Tigers being disciplined to end violent undesirable conduct. The
majority of tigers were lodged in small concrete cages or bleak enclosures with
inadequate admittance to fresh water.
Dr. Schmidt-Burbach further noted, "Tourists need to be
aware that their once in a lifetime opportunity to get up close to a tiger
causes a lifetime of suffering. A selfie with a tiger is cruel, so don't do
it."
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