money, money gleaming bright

That is a very tricky question. On the one hand ,man breeds many animals to make use of them but on the other hand, he is controlled in how he can rear his livestock,he must be seen to be acting humanely in most parts of the world or suffer punishment. I don't like to think that tigers are bred in captivity to be used for such purposes but it is much sadder that they should be bred in terrible conditions. There need to be controls put on the conditions in which they may be bred and also on the reasons they are being bred in the first place. Here in the UK we only ever hear that they are endangered and will die out and so breeding them for 'parts' seems horrific.

People should just stop their greediness and I hope the governments concern should consider some regulations and laws on this one. I pity those tigers, I know they can eat a man alive but when it comes to survival we have the advantage and by that we should be the one protecting them not poaching them. Where World Wildlife Foundation when you need them?

A very good friend from South Africa was in tears last year over the state of some of the National Parks in South Africa. She is a mighty warrior for her animal friends and is on many committees. While she thrilled us with accounts of visits to some of the parks, she broke our hearts with blogs and pictures of others. There is no doubt that mankind poses the greatest threat, not only for tigers but for hippos, elephants, seals and almost every living creature - and of course it is the "money, money, gleaming bright" that drives them. Governments? Aren't they also driven by the same thing?

Tigers are endangered, so that should automatically exclude them from being bred to be used for food, fur, etc. But assuming that they weren't, I guess you'd apply the same arguments to it as to breeding other animals to be used for food, fur, etc. Which is, it should only be done under humane conditions, if at all. But there is something about tigers specifically that makes the whole idea disgusting somehow, for parts or for pets...

Everytime I hear of things like that I think that we are the worst predators. It´s a pity, but it´s difficult to be proud of our species when you know this id happening and that there is no way to stop it. Tigers are not domestic animals so it should be agaist the law to have them as pets. It is dangerous at the most and cruel to them too. their owners turn them into something they are not meant to be. As the law doesn´t rele against this, these tiger farm appear. And the owners of that are not doing it to help the tigers,but to fill their pockets with money. So the least they spend (and here come too the horrible conditions of this trade)the more they earn. It seems that with tigers there´s not even the excuse that some people eat them to survive. There should be international laws protecting the tigers. Unfortunatly. I think many laws are enforced because there´s money in between.

Sometimes I have this fantasy going in my head. I imagine that I was put on earth by some higher civilization from another planet. One day they come back to check on their prized possessions. They didnt want to use us as "cattle" so they set us up on this lovely planet to live freely and procreate. They come back and see what we're doing to our "cattle" . They then decide that since we're so cruel that maybe we need a lesson. Id hate this to be true as in the end.....we'll have to pay for how cruel and heartless we are to animals. I too am ashamed sometimes to call myself a "human being"

Humans do not have a stellar record when it comes to our treatment of other animals. We move into areas where predators live and then get upset because they eat our livestock. They were there first. If we cannot manage to preserve a place where they can live in the wild, then I suppose we should breed them in captivity, just to keep the species viable. A tiger raised in captivity is just a shadow of what a real tiger is like, but I guess it is better than no tigers at all. Humans have some really strange views of other animals. Many seem to think that they are just humans dressed up as something else. They are not like us. They have their own world and their own priorities. That guy in Alaska that lived right in the midst of several grizzly bears (until something ticked them off and they killed him and his girlfriend) seemed to think a grizzly was a man in a bear suit. It is like people who keep snakes for pets and then get upset when the snake bites them. It's a snake. It's what he does. And you knew he was a snake.

i think we should make a law to stop poching animals beacuse there all goin instinct. The gov shouldnt worry about money as much as life. they think money is money valiable.