The big cats were moved from a tiger farm in northern Thailand and moved to Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.
The World Wildlife Fund on Thursday urged Asian states to investigate all tiger breeding centres and crack down on any involved in black-market animal trade. On the eve of the International Day of the ...
With tiger farms in Asia coming in for increasing global scrutiny, important progress was made towards closing them at CITES CoP17 today, restarting a process that had been stalled since 2007 – when ...
In 1991, wildlife investigator J. A. Mills went to China to verify rumors about tiger farming. She worked undercover, for the World Wildlife Fund and an organization called Traffic. "I mainly ...
WWF calls on governments across Asia to close any tiger breeding operations involved in the illegal tiger trade. Gland – Following the serious crimes recently uncovered during a raid on Thailand’s ...
Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a private farm near Johannesburg over the weekend, injured a man and left three animals dead. The 39-year-old ...
The U.S. just sent a powerful example to the world about our commitment to the protection of tigers, and to the broader goal of conserving and restoring nature and biodiversity across the globe. On ...
AN BINH, Vietnam (AP) – Conservationists allege that Vietnam’s 11 registered tiger farms are fronts for a thriving illegal market in animal parts. The activists say that Vietnam’s loosely regulated ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Conservation groups say Laos has promised to phase out tiger farms, which could help to curb the illegal trade in the endangered animals' body parts and protect the depleted ...
Johannesburg — Sheba, an 8-year-old tiger that escaped from a small enclosure at a farm south of Johannesburg over the weekend, was euthanized Monday after officials decided trying to recapture the ...
Captivity in a concrete box is over for 15 big cats. On Dec. 16, 12 tigers and three leopards were rescued from a tiger farm in northern Thailand, where the animals have spent their lives in captivity ...