• China: Destroying not only civil liberties but rare, endangered, species too!
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[quote] (March 13) -- Eleven rare Siberian tigers starved to death at a cash-strapped Chinese zoo this winter in a case activists say highlights inadequate care for endangered species in the country's wildlife parks. The animals slowly died one-by-one after being kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones rather than an estimated 20 pounds of meat they need daily to grow, Chinese media reported Friday. But a manager at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo, where the deaths occurred over the past three months, told The Associated Press the tigers died from disease over a long cold winter. He didn't elaborate. The park is located in China's frigid northeastern Liaoning province. Several rare Siberian tigers starved to death at a cash-strapped Chinese zoo this winter AP Several Siberian tigers have died at a northern Chinese zoo. Here, a Siberian tiger sits on a tourist bus last summer near the zoo. Two other tigers at the same facility were reportedly shot dead by police last November after the hungry animals attacked a zookeeper. Siberian tigers are one of the world's rarest species, with only about 300 still living in the wild. China is believed to keep as many as 6,000 tigers of various species, all bred in captivity. Activists say the deaths reveal unsavory practices in China's zoos and animal farms, where zookeepers are accused of over-breeding endangered species and then letting them die, in hopes of earning illicit profits from selling the carcasses. Tiger parts can fetch huge returns on the black market, where they're illegally sold for use in traditional medicine and liquor. In this case, the privately-owned zoo was up for sale and struggling financially, and Chinese media quoted staffers as saying they hadn't been paid in 18 months. "The zoo has been taking money from the staff salaries to feed the animals," an employee who gave only her surname, Ms. Wang, told The Times newspaper in London. With 30 tigers remaining, the zoo would be spending more than $1,300 each day to feed them properly, she said. Xie Yan, China director for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, told the AP many Chinese zoos have more tigers than they can afford to keep. The animals are expensive because they require a lot of food and space to roam, and ticket sales don't normally generate enough revenue to support them. A Beijing spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, Chris Chaplin, told the AP the recent tiger deaths dealt "a massive blow" to conservation efforts. Ironically, China is currently celebrating the year of the tiger.[/quote] [img]http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/6/5/653188/1268473195107.JPEG[/img] Source: [url]http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/rare-siberian-tigers-starved-to-death-this-winter-in-a-chinese-zoo/19397672[/url] Fuck you China.
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China has shitty zoos. No regulations like Western zoos. They probably had them in a 20x20 foot concrete box. Fucking idiots.
Damn Chinese people. I like tigers.
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Damn Chineses. (cookie for ref).
[QUOTE=OvB;20729411]China has shitty zoos. No regulations like Western zoos. They probably had them in a 20x20 foot concrete box. Fucking idiots.[/QUOTE] China isn't a first world country
:china: China, you have disappointed me.
6000 tigers, that's cool. Let's not apply the error of one single Zoo in the middle of nowhere to all the Zoos in China thanks.
Well, all the river dolphins were killed off...
Yay, more reason to hate China.
goddammit china also Ms. Wang :smug:
[QUOTE=Thomo;20730290]Western safari parks and shit should take all the tigers out of china before all hope of them living on is gone.[/QUOTE] To bad all hope is not gone. [editline]01:39AM[/editline] Join PETA while you guys are at it.
[QUOTE=ashxu;20730096]China isn't a first world country[/QUOTE] That doesn't give them the right to put endangered animals in boxes. Endangured species should be handled ONLY by people who have studied them in the field, who are responsible, and have the money to provide every ounce of it's natural environment as physically possible in captivity.
Great, now I feel bad about being Chinese.
[QUOTE=larrylumpy;20731289]Great, now I feel bad about being Chinese.[/QUOTE] Don't Its not like you personally did it.
Goddamn mainlanders.
I can't say I'm not surprised.
Endangered Animals are incompetent and do not deserve to live.
It's amazing. All this information that get's thrown around the internet. No matter how minuscule it is, someone knows about it and is sharing it with the world.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;20732638]It's amazing. All this information that get's thrown around the internet. No matter how minuscule it is, someone knows about it and is sharing it with the world.[/QUOTE] Stop patronizing the internet.
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;20732573]Endangered Animals are incompetent and do not deserve to live.[/QUOTE] "Due to intensive hunting and deforestation, the Caspian tiger(relative of Siberian Tiger. Species split up by over hunting just within the past century) retreated first from the lush lowlands to the forested ranges, then to the marshes around some of the larger rivers, and finally, deeper into the mountains, until it almost certainly became extinct" Yeah stupid animals.
Fucking China.
[QUOTE=OvB;20732828]"Due to intensive hunting and deforestation, the Caspian tiger(relative of Siberian Tiger. Species split up by over hunting just within the past century) retreated first from the lush lowlands to the forested ranges, then to the marshes around some of the larger rivers, and finally, deeper into the mountains, until it almost certainly became extinct" Yeah stupid animals.[/QUOTE] He was joking.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;20733380]He was joking.[/QUOTE] No I wasn't. Don't assume things.
nuke china
Wow what dicks... You think someone would do [I] something [/I]
[QUOTE=Retyuoligkl;20734825]Wow what dicks... You think someone would do [I] something [/I][/QUOTE] How much do you think it would cost to buy a siberian tiger? [editline]11:00AM[/editline] Or two.
Compared to other stuff that goes on in China this is nothing. [editline]11:03AM[/editline] Oh and hold your "fucking Chinese", because you can't judge an entire population (a big one too) based on this.
[QUOTE=acds;20738302]Compared to other stuff that goes on in China this is nothing. [editline]11:03AM[/editline] Oh and hold your "fucking Chinese", because you can't judge an entire population (a big one too) based on this.[/QUOTE] Right. Though we can judge it based on all the other bullshit that comes out of china.
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