The White Tiger Myth - Tigers in America The name was invented in 1980 to attract people to a nightclub act in Las Vegas There are no white tigers in the wild; all the whites in this country are the product of 60 years of inbreeding Because of the inbreeding, over 50% of white tigers die as cubs, and those who survive suffer from physical defects
There Are 40% More Tigers In The World Than Previously . . . "It's the Year of the Tiger, and a new population assessment offers some hope for the endangered species An estimated 3,726 to 5,578 tigers currently live in the wild worldwide — up 40% from 2015, according to a new tiger assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Increasing Number of Tiger Farms Implicated in Illegal . . . With only an estimated 3,900 tigers left in the wild, evidence indicates that an increasing number of seized animals undoubtedly originate from captive breeding operations: at least 30% of the tigers seized in 2012-2015 were known to be of captive-sourced tigers
INVENTED CAGES: THE PLIGHT OF WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY attention more on the dangers that wild non-human animals pose to human beings rather than the reverse: the dangers posed by human beings to wild animals that live in captivity Discussions about the private ownership of wild animals are likely to raise strong emotions on both sides of the “empty cages” versus “larger cages” debate