Who was on holiday - the former resident or the tiger? Ah - the vagaries of the English language!
The article goes on to say that Finn, Adele Kofler, then wrote to the World Society for the Protection of Animals to see what could be done about it.
The demise of endangered species, such as tigers, has a common enemy: man - through his greed and stupidity. A dead adult tiger can be worth as much as US$50k with the head, skin, claws, meat, blood and p*nis all being valued for trophy or medicinal purposes.
We watched a program on National Geographic on the tigers in a reserve in Ranthambhore, Rajasthan in India. It tracked some of the resident tigers, as well as described how the reserve rangers watch over them, but obviously they didn't watch them that well.
Sadly, all of the 18 or so tigers which were in that reserve have now "disappeared
" - as have tigers in other so-called sanctuaries, such as Sariska National Park which is also in Rasjathan. An article on the Debating India website has tiger population figures that show the alarming rate of decline in numbers over the past century.The tiger's plight is certainly not helped with acts of sheer idiocy as in Baghdad in 2003, and if I had been there, it wouldn't have been the tiger that was shot.
All seriousness aside for a minute - wouldn't it be very cool to drive down SZR with a tiger hanging out of your car? I wonder what the impact would be on the Sunny and Echo drivers!
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yes i wrote on that subject in my blog as well. Actually, having been a resident here the lady should have known, that lots of members of the royal families keep wild animals in their homes which they domesticate. It's never been a secret. So i doubt to say that these animals' lives are worse than in the Dubai Zoo.
Well I thought that the tiger looked pretty happy to me - nice car, warm breeze, out for a drive.
Probably takes great enjoyment from getting out and about!
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