[Nhcoll-l] Tigers tortured, electrocuted and slaughtered for "visual feasts"

[Roberta Faul-Zeitler]

March 27, 2014: Can this be posted to NH-COLL?

 

ANIMALS AT RISK: TIGER TORTURE & SLAUGHTER IN CHINA

FROM GREEN NEWS UPDATE:
http://greennewsupdate.com/2014/03/27/animals-at-risk-tiger-torture-slaughte
r-in-china/

 

Britain’s Guardian Newspaper reports March 27, 2014:  ” Police in the port
city of Zhanjiang, in the southern province of Guangdong,  China, seized a
freshly slaughtered tiger and multiple tiger products in a raid this month,”
said the Nanfang Daily, the mouthpiece of the provincial Communist Party.
There is evidence of torture and electrocution death of 10 tigers as “visual
feasts” for officials and wealthy Guangdong businessmen. A butcher was
brought in to “dress the meat” and separate the bones to sell. According to
the Guardian, ” 
 tiger bones s[ell] for an average of 14,000 yuan (£1,360)
a kilo while the meat fetched 1,000 yuan a kilo.”  Tiger bones are
considered an essential part of traditional Chinese medicine.   The
International Union for the  Conservation of Nature’s Red List estimates
there are only 3000 tigers (from an estimated population of 100,000 a
century ago).  The Chinese government made it a law to ban the killing of
tigers in 1977.

 

The articles do not specify which of 9 subspecies of tiger were slaughtered.
According to the website lions.org
<http://www.lions.org/types-of-tigers.html> , the Panthera tigris amoyensis,
also known as the South China tiger [would include Guangdong province] “is
actually the most endangered tiger subspecies. They are even more endangered
than the Sumatran tigers, which are already heavily watched by
conservationists. The South China tiger has even made the list of the
world’s 10 most endangered species.” If you can stomach reading the entire
story, here is the link.
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/tigers-killed-entertainment-gu
angdong-businessmen>  

 

The Chinese are the major beneficiary of trafficking in rhino horn
(considered a medicine and aphrodisiac) and  elephant tusks that are made
into complex carvings,  jewelry and trinkets.  Read the Green News Update
stories on African elephant slaughter
<http://greennewsupdate.com/2014/03/04/animals-at-risk-elephant-slaughter-ci
rcles-of-death/>  and new US policies; and a $24-million gift to slow the
slaughter of rhinos
<http://greennewsupdate.com/2014/03/24/animals-at-risk-rhino-anti-poaching-c
ampaign/>  in South Africa’s national parks.

 

 

Roberta Faul-Zeitler

Publisher
Email: faulzeitler at verizon.net

Green News Update: http://greennewsupdate.com

 

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