JOHANNESBURG—A tiger that escaped from a private farm in South Africa and attacked a man and killed two dogs and a pig while on the loose for days was euthanized on Wednesday. Sheba, an 8-year-old female tiger, was shot in the early hours of the morning after being spotted in a residential area near where […]
Berlin Zoo has asked members of the public to come up with a name for its Sumatran tiger cubs. The twins, both girls, were born on 1 September to proud mum Mayang and father Jae Jae. The little balls of fur are doing well, putting on the pounds and making themselves at home in their […]
KUALA LUMPUR—Wildlife authorities in some Asian countries are seeing an increase in seizures of tigers and tiger parts despite efforts by conservationists to protect the endangered animal, according to a report by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC. Tiger numbers globally have been decimated by poaching, trade, and habitat destruction in the past century, though more recent […]
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—Police and local authorities in eastern Slovakia have urged residents to be cautious after a tiger that escaped from private hands in neighboring Ukraine was seen over the weekend in a border area. The town of Ulic told citizens Sunday to limit their outdoors movements. Police warned people against taking any risks. They said […]
HAVANA—Another rare Bengal tiger cub was born at Cuba’s National Zoo in Havana, zookeepers said on Friday, just over a year after four of the striped and adorable baby beasts—amongst them a rare white tiger—graced the grounds. The birth of all the cubs comes after trying for 20 years to breed the endangered felines. All […]
BANGKOK—Forest rangers in western Thailand are searching a remote jungle on Burma (also known as Myanmar) border hoping to rescue a wild tiger with a missing leg from an area where poachers have recently been operating. Staff from the wildlife protection organization Freeland spotted the animal earlier this week on video recorded by a remotely […]
Warning: article contains graphic content Authorities are considering charges against a man attacked by a tiger after entering an unauthorized area after hours at a Naples, Florida, zoo, leaving a deputy no choice but to kill the critically endangered cat. Zoo officials’ thoughts are with the badly injured man—identified as 26-year-old River Rosenquist of Naples—who […]
It has been a long journey for “Tsezar” the tiger. Two years ago, local animal rights activists rescued him from an abandoned privately run breeding facility in Ukraine. For years, the tiger was used for intensive breeding, living under cruel conditions, starved, and abused. Tsezar was kept in a tiny cage and fed mostly with […]
