Tigers in South Africa - a Farming Industry Exists - Often for Their Body Parts TC_Africa: SouthAfrica
. Tigers are being intensively farmed for tourism, hunting, and commercial trade in live individuals and in their body parts.
Another concern we have is for animal welfare. Big cat breeding facilities in South Africa have been consistentlyAlso, none of the big cat facilities in South Africa have demonstrated that they are basing their breeding programmes on internationally recognised stud books or have successfully released any tigers back into the wild. Therefore, currently they provide no demonstrable direct conservation benefit.
as live animals and body parts to China, Vietnam and Thailand. These are renowned hotspots for demand in tiger body parts and the illegal tiger trade., an animal protection organisation that we also work with, has received intelligence which indicates poachers are targeting tigers in captive breeding facilities. Their heads and paws are harvested and trafficked to meet Asian consumer demand.
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