to wild a tame tiger
I just met Liu Dan, one of the managers at a feline breeding center in northeast china, also known a tiger farm, or zoo, or entertainment complex. china's push to legalize tiger parts trading was not successful which means big problems maybe arising for all the tiger farms in china.
like i said, i'm not an activist anymore.
Liu Dan had started the tiger farm to save siberian tigers. that was just IT. not to provide entertainment for tourists as the popular media would like to portray them as. the popular media feeds on sympathy, epathy and the activist notions of people, just like some conservation groups i know of. these sort of things attract media, attention, good publicity, good light and most of all, donations.
the tiger as a totemic icon of a dying creature that needs your help is the ideal vision most organisations adopts anyway. more then 50 organisations asks for you donations to save the tiger in the world, do you know that? your money has helped sustain many animal groups in the world. and of course, governments give millions, like 50 million? for groups of scientists to study, footprints of tigers. you got that right, footprints.
I have always used to ignore all these questions in my head when I am working with them, whether the money is well justified. Seriously, its not the conservationists and activists at the bottom, its the people heading the organisations that gets the funding that needs questioning. why are conservationists struggling-to-feed-themselves-idiots when there's so much donations coming in. i know, i'v gotten the moolahs for projects that can fund oil pipe lines and the monies just dissappears.
and Liu Dan's breeding centre today has been forced into an entertainment complex solely because they are unable to support the growing numbers (in the thousands) of tigers the farm is producing. interestingly, please compare the stats to the wild life parks which has not increased the numbers by 10 in a year. he does not want to feed the tigers with low quality chicken, crap etc. the workers in the farms, most of them getting 50% pay cuts ,do not seem to mind at all. Liu Dan makes sure the employees gets what they need and provide housing and daily essentials for them, as long as everyone treats the tigers with respect.
china has put in her fair share to re-introduce these captive tigers to the wild but un-successful of course. i don't really care, the state that wild tigers are in is solely because of our vast expansion plans to urbanise every inch. tigers are not meant for the 21st century, seriously.
he also showed me the freezer room, where almost 1000 carcasses of tigers were kept. which in turn if sold, the carcasses could feed the tigers for a well-full year, and the entertainment for tourism of the animals could stop as well.
and mind u, the only reasons why any establishment or persons would want to work with animals or live with them was they loved them first. whether or not the realization of the love do come or becomes something twisted, majority of them do not buy animals to kill them. i'v seen enough to comment on this.
and as of which, i'v decided to work with Liu Dan, as part of the my collective's initiative to portray the current state of human's relationship with animals. if only people are not sick in the beginning and curious about the gore of nature's way of killing, & nature is not perfect to begin with, it involves death, its only natural. i am talking about the staged killings of the buffaloes by tigers in his centre that brings in millions of dollars.
the only souce of income for the center is from tourism, so do not blame them for the live feeding acts and other commodeties that can help them sustain the centre.
anyway, the world at large has 15,000 captive tigers so your fear of tigers becoming extinct should be the last worry admist this discussion.
like i said, i'm not an activist anymore.
Liu Dan had started the tiger farm to save siberian tigers. that was just IT. not to provide entertainment for tourists as the popular media would like to portray them as. the popular media feeds on sympathy, epathy and the activist notions of people, just like some conservation groups i know of. these sort of things attract media, attention, good publicity, good light and most of all, donations.
the tiger as a totemic icon of a dying creature that needs your help is the ideal vision most organisations adopts anyway. more then 50 organisations asks for you donations to save the tiger in the world, do you know that? your money has helped sustain many animal groups in the world. and of course, governments give millions, like 50 million? for groups of scientists to study, footprints of tigers. you got that right, footprints.
I have always used to ignore all these questions in my head when I am working with them, whether the money is well justified. Seriously, its not the conservationists and activists at the bottom, its the people heading the organisations that gets the funding that needs questioning. why are conservationists struggling-to-feed-themselves-idiots when there's so much donations coming in. i know, i'v gotten the moolahs for projects that can fund oil pipe lines and the monies just dissappears.
and Liu Dan's breeding centre today has been forced into an entertainment complex solely because they are unable to support the growing numbers (in the thousands) of tigers the farm is producing. interestingly, please compare the stats to the wild life parks which has not increased the numbers by 10 in a year. he does not want to feed the tigers with low quality chicken, crap etc. the workers in the farms, most of them getting 50% pay cuts ,do not seem to mind at all. Liu Dan makes sure the employees gets what they need and provide housing and daily essentials for them, as long as everyone treats the tigers with respect.
china has put in her fair share to re-introduce these captive tigers to the wild but un-successful of course. i don't really care, the state that wild tigers are in is solely because of our vast expansion plans to urbanise every inch. tigers are not meant for the 21st century, seriously.
he also showed me the freezer room, where almost 1000 carcasses of tigers were kept. which in turn if sold, the carcasses could feed the tigers for a well-full year, and the entertainment for tourism of the animals could stop as well.
and mind u, the only reasons why any establishment or persons would want to work with animals or live with them was they loved them first. whether or not the realization of the love do come or becomes something twisted, majority of them do not buy animals to kill them. i'v seen enough to comment on this.
and as of which, i'v decided to work with Liu Dan, as part of the my collective's initiative to portray the current state of human's relationship with animals. if only people are not sick in the beginning and curious about the gore of nature's way of killing, & nature is not perfect to begin with, it involves death, its only natural. i am talking about the staged killings of the buffaloes by tigers in his centre that brings in millions of dollars.
the only souce of income for the center is from tourism, so do not blame them for the live feeding acts and other commodeties that can help them sustain the centre.
anyway, the world at large has 15,000 captive tigers so your fear of tigers becoming extinct should be the last worry admist this discussion.