Tiger Woods has gone from “Hello, world,” to saying goodbye to Nike. Woods ended months of speculation by making it official Monday that the partnership between golf’s biggest star and the powerful Swoosh brand is ending after 27 years, a move that raises questions about the future of both in the sport. Woods in a […]
Tiger King star Carole Baskin has announced that she is closing down her Big Cat Rescue sanctuary in Florida. In a memo, her husband, Howard Baskin, revealed that the cats would be moved to Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. “Big Cat Rescue has entered into an agreement with Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, an accredited […]
ATHENS—Greek veterinarians are fighting to save a white tiger cub abandoned in a rubbish bin at an Athens zoo, believed to be a victim of the illegal wildlife trade. The three-month old white tiger was found on Feb. 28 under a garbage bin in the parking lot of the Attica Zoological Park by a cleaner, […]
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 […]
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for the CCP virus, which believed to be the first infection of a zoo animal anywhere in the world and the first case of human-to-animal transmission in the United States. The 4-year-old tiger and six other tigers and lions have developed symptoms. The tiger is believed to […]
Five people in Indonesia have been arrested for poaching a protected Sumatran Tiger, after authorities discovered a dead tiger with four of its fetuses in a jar, state media news agency Antara has reported. A team made up of police and officials from the Environment and Forestry Ministry were tipped off about suspected poaching by […]
Two forest rangers narrowly escaped with their lives after they were chased by a wild tiger in a forest in India. The close call was caught on video. The clip, which has since gone viral on Facebook, was shared by the Forests and Wildlife Protection Society. The department captions the video, “A Tiger is seen […]
The ex-owner of a tiger rescued from a filthy cage in an abandoned house in Houston has been charged with animal cruelty.
Houston police Wednesday arrested 24-year-old Brittany Garza on the misdemeanor count involving a non-livestock animal. She’s free on $100 bond. An attorney for Garza, Jay Cohen, declined comment Thursday.
