More tigers now live in cages than in the wild

TERRENCE McCOY: ‘Over the past century or so, the tiger population has plunged in the wild, dropping from an estimated 100,000 to fewer than 4,000, while the number in captivity had exploded to more than 12,500. Nowhere else was the animal’s commodification more complete than in tiger farming, where it is raised, butchered for parts … Continue reading More tigers now live in cages than in the wild