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The Tragic Tale of Tony the Truck Stop Tiger

The Tragic Tale of Tony the Truck Stop Tiger

By Stephen Wells For more than six years, the Animal Legal Defense Fund fought tirelessly to save a tiger named Tony from a cage in the parking lot of a Louisiana truck stop. Sadly, we received news last week that Tony had died of kidney failure after spending 16 years confined to his cage, living […]

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    100 Years Ago 100,000 Tigers Roamed the World, Now There Are Fewer Than 4,000

    100 Years Ago 100,000 Tigers Roamed the World, Now There Are Fewer Than 4,000

    Discovery Communications and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced Wednesday a partnership to conserve nearly 1 million acres of critical tiger habitat in India and Bhutan in hopes of doubling the world’s population of tigers by 2022. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1321900031156264/ expand=1] The big cats are known to have once roamed much of Asia. Poaching and habitat loss […]

    Horrific Video Shows Tigers Abused, Forced to Swim With Tourists at Florida Zoo

    Horrific Video Shows Tigers Abused, Forced to Swim With Tourists at Florida Zoo

    Armed with new video footage from an eyewitness investigation revealing that Dade City’s Wild Things‘ (DCWT) staff jerked tiger cubs by the leash, dragged them by the neck, struck, grabbed and tossed them—even into a pool—among other instances of abuse and neglect, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has filed a lawsuit alleging […]

    200 Farms in China Breed Tigers for Slaughter for Body Parts, Luxury Goods

    200 Farms in China Breed Tigers for Slaughter for Body Parts, Luxury Goods

    In legal tiger farms across China, some 6,000 caged cats are kept in filthy conditions and will be killed for dubious medicinal uses and as home decor for the country’s newly-rich elite. The sordid business is mostly legal, but hides behind carefully-worded agreements and pretensions of conservation. The issue is expected to be addressed at […]