Biggest tiger farms outside Asia are operating freely in South Africa, Four Paws animal charity says
Several facilities were breeding tigers to sell their body parts to China or Vietnam for use in traditional medicine, the report said.Several facilities were breeding tigers to sell their body parts to China or Vietnam for use in traditional medicine, the report said.Research by Four Paws, which is campaigning to shut down South Africa’s big cat industry, found 103 places in the country where tigers were kept in captivity in 2023 or 2024 or had been kept during the previous three years.
In another photo that the report included in anonymised form, network members claimed they were cooking tigers somewhere in SouthThat was a 40% increase in the population since 2021 but it still represents a huge drop from 100,000 about a century ago.
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