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[Footloose1949]

There are more Tigers owned as pets (4000+!!!) in Texas alone, than in the wild. Tibet and counties next to it are in the process of developing a 'wild Tiger enviroment/reserve' which crosses their borders. The population of Bangal Tigers is pretty close to the brink of extinction too. Such beautiful animals, and sadly, transferring 'Urbanised/Zoo-bred' Tigers back into the wild, seems to be nigh-on impossible, (Just in case anyone thought that might be a solution) though if the cross-borders reserve works, maybe there is a glimmer of hope.

[janverbeem]

I heard about a restaurant adjacent to a night safari which is serving exotic meats and the owner is in the current government .......oops I didn't hear anything.

[kawaiimomo]

4 years is very slight sentence compared to others sentences you can get for doing IMO crimes not as bad as this one. Anyway, I would gladly pay 10k to have a soup from one of those lowlifes (probably not tasty at all but you know, we need to pay them as exotic/luxury food so they will be hunted down)

[webfact]

Zoos to be checked after tiger skins and carcasses found
Janjira Pongrai
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- A blanket inspection of tigers in zoos and other captive animals has been ordered in the wake of a fresh seizure of tiger skins and carcasses and other protected wildlife from a major smuggler at a Bangkok home.

An official from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) said the skinned tigers could have been obtained from one of the zoos. So, the inspection, when done, would reveal a head-count and other details of animals at all premises and likely evidence of any that had gone missing.

Deputy director-general Theeraphat Prayoonsitthi said DNA checks of tigers was not viable as an inspection measure, as only a few had been collected to date under a DNP project at Huay Kha Khaeng wildlife reserve in Kanchanaburi.

Tiger skins and carcasses along with meat from elephants, zebras and lions were found at the house. Seven suspects implicated a man known as Od Bang Kruay as the trader and smuggler behind the slaughter. They allege that he took orders from foreign buyers - to provide them with the meat and skins.

There are around one million protected or wild creatures in zoos and private enclosures in Thailand, but 80 per cent of them are birds and avian species. Around 300 zoos have permission to keep tigers and other felines.


-- The Nation 2012-02-07

[Reasonableman]

Of course, only foreign buyers...

[pimay11]

janverbeem, on 2012-02-06 22:53:40, said:

I heard about a restaurant adjacent to a night safari which is serving exotic meats and the owner is in the current government .......oops I didn't hear anything.

The Nation: 11/17/2005
Visitors offered daily buffet of lion, tiger, elephant and giraffe meat; conservation groups outraged. Lovers of wild cuisine are in for a treat when Chiang Mai's Night Safari opens next year, project director Plodprasop Suraswadi said yesterday. Visitors to the park's Vareekunchorn restaurant will have the option of tucking in to an Exotic Buffet of tiger, lion, elephant and giraffe, for just Bt4,500 a head

[toybits]

why don't they also catch restaurants that serve Pla Buek or Giant Mekong River Catfish?

[blackthorn2005]

monty1412, on 2012-02-06 18:54:32, said:

Four years.... why not life and send a right thorough message...... sort if strange following a man with blood on his hands.....doesnt sort of make sense.. why would any man go out like that if he's engaged in illegal action ...

"The arrested men could face four years in jail for the illegal processing of wild and protected animals"  How about castrating them and selling their testicles to the Chinese?

[glomp]

What i'd like to know is how the customers would know it was actually tiger or what not on the plate? Some dodgy dudes "promise" that it is infact so? Why not just sell them road kill and not take the risk as the presentation of the experience must be the selling point anyway?

[TAWP]

glomp, on 2012-02-08 03:01:03, said:

What i'd like to know is how the customers would know it was actually tiger or what not on the plate? Some dodgy dudes "promise" that it is infact so? Why not just sell them road kill and not take the risk as the presentation of the experience must be the selling point anyway?

Maybe because they think it is bad Karma to lie to a human but ok to kill endangered animals?

[wintermute]

An enterprising Thai military official could arrange Cambodian style shooting galleries where a tourist can blow up a lion with a grenade launcher then mama San Lek can use  her village culinary skills to turn it into Laap or grilled lion on small sticks.

[ratcatcher]

pimay11, on 2012-02-07 10:20:00, said:

janverbeem, on 2012-02-06 22:53:40, said:

I heard about a restaurant adjacent to a night safari which is serving exotic meats and the owner is in the current government .......oops I didn't hear anything.

The Nation: 11/17/2005
Visitors offered daily buffet of lion, tiger, elephant and giraffe meat; conservation groups outraged. Lovers of wild cuisine are in for a treat when Chiang Mai's Night Safari opens next year, project director Plodprasop Suraswadi said yesterday. Visitors to the park's Vareekunchorn restaurant will have the option of tucking in to an Exotic Buffet of tiger, lion, elephant and giraffe, for just Bt4,500 a head

There he is again, the face that launched a thousand ships,  plod.jpg   6.83K   0 downloadsMr Plod prasop, with wild, staring eyes,involved in serving up zoo animals on a plate.
No wonder he's so wealthy. No doubt he sleeps soundly.

[thaiedward]

Reasonableman, on 2012-02-07 06:16:47, said:

Of course, only foreign buyers...

Good posts, young man.

The figures I've encountered: @ 3ooo left in the wild; @ 3000 in tiger-farm-zoo-factories from which they sell the gorgeous beasts out the back-door to (largely) Chinese consumers who eat anything on four-legs...except the table...and then proceed to blend a bitter wine from the skelital remains.Quite sad.

Perhaps you (and others) have heard of "Make an Uproar", an org devoted toward the preservation of these magnificent creatures.

[thaiedward]

Footloose1949, on 2012-02-06 22:45:22, said:

There are more Tigers owned as pets (4000+!!!) in Texas alone, than in the wild. Tibet and counties next to it are in the process of developing a 'wild Tiger enviroment/reserve' which crosses their borders. The population of Bangal Tigers is pretty close to the brink of extinction too. Such beautiful animals, and sadly, transferring 'Urbanised/Zoo-bred' Tigers back into the wild, seems to be nigh-on impossible, (Just in case anyone thought that might be a solution) though if the cross-borders reserve works, maybe there is a glimmer of hope.

That's good news, sir. We can hope for the best.

Bengals require such extensive range/territory which is threatened by humans' expansionist policies.Please boink MakeAnUproar.org.

Thanks for your awareness.

[wintermute]

ratcatcher, on 2012-02-08 10:15:37, said:

pimay11, on 2012-02-07 10:20:00, said:

janverbeem, on 2012-02-06 22:53:40, said:

I heard about a restaurant adjacent to a night safari which is serving exotic meats and the owner is in the current government .......oops I didn't hear anything.

The Nation: 11/17/2005
Visitors offered daily buffet of lion, tiger, elephant and giraffe meat; conservation groups outraged. Lovers of wild cuisine are in for a treat when Chiang Mai's Night Safari opens next year, project director Plodprasop Suraswadi said yesterday. Visitors to the park's Vareekunchorn restaurant will have the option of tucking in to an Exotic Buffet of tiger, lion, elephant and giraffe, for just Bt4,500 a head

There he is again, the face that launched a thousand ships,  plod.jpg   6.83K   0 downloadsMr Plod prasop, with wild, staring eyes,involved in serving up zoo animals on a plate.
No wonder he's so wealthy. No doubt he sleeps soundly.

Boy will you look at that face. It looks like he could substitute his viagra pills next time with thoughts of roasting lion loins on a BBQ pit with that facial expression he's making.