Sri Racha tiger zoo, entry ticket, opening hours. General info.

[wilcopops]

All the more ease to question the ethics and practices of the Sri Racha Zoo.

This article aout the illegal trade in endangered species, including 5 Tiger cubs.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/five-tiger-cubs-seized-thai-police-wildlife-haul-181750858.html#Vq1sGCM

Edited February 21, 2014 by wilcopops

[wilcopops]

Sri Racha Tiger Zoo say they have about 400 tigers - i believe the majority are Bengal Tigers, therefore not indigenous to Thailand.

It is an established fact that a few years back they shipped about 100 tigers to China. Where they went or why they were shipped, I can't say, but it resulted in Deputy PM Plodprasop having to appear in court as it has bee alleged that he illegally gave permission for the shipment.

The operations at the Sri Racha Zoo are uncannily like a Chinese tiger farm where tigers are production-line bred for there carcasses. Tigresses are kept perpetually impregnated and produce pus like on the production line. This often results in the Tigress being incapable of producing milk to suckle the cubs. to get round this new born cubs are suckled by pigs or other animals.

In Sri Raha this method is marketed as a zoo attraction, and it is even inferred that the tigress scales the piglets. It is hard to see what purpose this "switching" of off-spring can achieve that is of benefit to the animals, but it might explain an overloaded breeding program.

It would also be nice to know what numbers of Tigers are bred at the zoo and and if they are shipped to other "zoos" where when how and in what numbers are they shipped.

It would also be nice to hear the zoo's justification of this on wildlife welfare and conservation grounds.

Edited February 21, 2014 by wilcopops

[wilcopops]

"Tiger cubs suckling on pigs. Sounds bizarre, but that is how tiger farms in Thailand and China are turning tigresses into a baby-making machines to supply the ever-hungry market for tiger parts.



Wean a tigress’ cubs off her prematurely and she will quickly come back in to oestrus. A successful tigress in the wild may raise a litter of up to four cubs to adulthood every two and half to three years. At a tiger farm in Thailand, a tigress can have at least one litter a year. 

" The ecologist