Friday, April 8, 2011

Selling Tigers Out The Back Door Of Farms

Photo by ENV


 Selling Tigers Out The Back Door Of Farms

The recent sentencing by a Binh Duong court of one of the province’s notorious tiger farmers is proof of what most tiger trade experts have known all along about tiger farming in Vietnam.

Tiger farmers are violating the law that bans commercial trade of tigers by quietly selling tigers out the back door of their farms.

In March, Thanh Canh Tourism Park owner Huynh Van Hai, his wife, son and 12 other people were given sentences ranging from 18 months probation to 36 months in prison for their involvement in the selling of five tigers from the tourism park between 2003 and 2006. Authorities believe that all or most of the tigers......................


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