Barun Mitra's article in the New York Times argues that to save the tiger we will have to farm it and treat it like a commodity to make money out of it. All this for the lucrative Chinese trade in Tiger medicines? As pointed out in the recent CATT Alert #38 "The simplest and most viable solution is to leave wild tigers alone in the wild and better enforce the long-standing ban on trade in tigerparts. Wild tigers will do the rest. The only humans who will lose outwill be a handful of already-wealthy tiger farmers."
Having seen tigers in Bhandavghar, Kanha and Corbett National Parks in India, it will be a worlwide tragedy if these magnificent animals are hunted to extinction--and all just for someone's idea of a medicine. To farm them seems totally immoral--as I would argue is the farming of ANY animal for their parts.
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