A Slovak hunted a tiger in Africa and used it for advertisement


LINK AT BOTTOM OF PAGE HAS PHOTOS OF THE TIGER.

He may spend one to five years in prison.



Ján K., a man from the village of Žihárec in Šaľa district (Nitra Region), may end up in prison for hunting a tiger in Africa and bringing it home. He subsequently used it to advertise hunting in South Africa.

Since he violated the rules for the protection of plants and animals, he could end up spending one to five years in prison if found guilty, the police said.

Ján K. hunted and killed a jungle tiger (Panthera tigris) for commercial purposes against valid regulations. He then brought the animal to Slovakia without permission from the Environment Ministry and kept it in his home without being able to prove how he had come into its possession.

"He also used the tiger to promote business activities related to mediating hunting in South Africa, at odds with the law," the police said.

The State Nature Protection calculated the jungle tiger specimen's social value at €28,000.


The controversial business of Ján K.'s family was in the past described by the Aktuality.sk news website. They sued tax officers after they had refused to approve their VAT refunds. The family was represented in court by ex-justice minister Gábor Gál of Most-Híd.

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This is news to me. I didn't think Tigers existed in Africa. Did they report the correct animal?

What country?

I guess canned tiger hunts were inevitable.

They have canned tiger hunting there.

I think they sell parts to orientals who want to buy them as well.

The reason this guy is in trouble isn’t that he went on a canned tiger hunt... it’s because he illegally imported the animal and was using it publicly and thus the authorities found out.

In other words, he was an elitist dumbass, if the article is correct.

Tigers being bred in Gauteng backyards for petting and bone export 0
BY DON PINNOCK - 23 APRIL 2018 - DAILY MAVERICK - FREE TO PUBLISH CREDIT CAT

South Africa is one the world’s biggest exporters of endangered tigers, almost all of which end up as floor mats, wall hangings or skeletons submerged in vats of Asian tiger-bone wine. The trade is so lucrative that city householders in Gauteng are breeding them in their backyards.

Because they’re not an indigenous species, trade in tigers is unregulated and flying below the radar of the DEA (Department of Environmental Affairs). When asked about it by Ban Animal Trading and the EMS Foundation, the DEA response was that tigers weren’t the department’s responsibility because they’re “exotics”. In reply to a request for information on tiger breeding facilities, Limpopo DEA wildlife director Sam Makhubele said the department had never been approached and he seemed surprised that they even existed.

However, 2015 a TRAFFIC/Wildcru report, Bones of Contention, estimated there were at the time 280 tigers in 44 facilities in South Africa. Today there are undoubtedly far more, but because tiger breeding doesn’t have to be reported, numbers are hard to establish.

A shock report by Ban Animal Trading and the EMS Foundation – sent to the UN wildlife trade organisation CITES – lists over 60 unlicensed tiger breeders, many of which market Bengal and Siberian tiger cubs, skins and bones worldwide. The report says South Africa’s lax and unregulated approach is contributing directly to the demise of tigers and the growth of the tiger bone industry. It notes that inbreeding is rampant and conditions under which many tigers are kept cruel and market-driven.

“South Africa’s management practices and controls are totally inadequate for such facilities,” it says, “and as a consequence there is nothing to prevent Asian big cats from entering illegal trade from or through the breeding and keeping facilities”.

When tigers cubs are too old to be used in petting parks, their primary value is their skins and bones. The meat of the animal at one facility, according to a researcher, was being offered at a tiger braai.

An irony at the heart of the tiger bone trade is that, in Asia, lion bones are being used in fake tiger bone wine, while in South Africa tiger bones are being faked as lion bones because the DEA has licensed lion bone export.

Tigers from South African breeding farms – particularly cubs taken from their mothers – are being exported to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Trinidad, Tobago, the United States, China, Egypt, Pakistan and Tanzania. Many of these farms are also hunting outfits and sell adult tigers to other hunting facilities and known exporters of animal bones. Additional revenue is from tourist cub petting.

The boom in tiger breeding is a marketing response to the demise of tigers in their home ranges. At the turn of the 20th century around 100,000 tigers roamed Asia. Today they’re scattered across just 7% of their former range, often in small “island” populations where isolation puts them at risk of becoming inbred and imperils their long-term survival.

Today about 2,633 Bengal tigers live in Nepal, Bhutan and India. The remainder – 1,257 tigers – are split among the other four subspecies: Siberian, Indochinese, Malay, and Sumatran. These subspecies are almost extinct.

The greatest threat is poaching. In the past seven years the cats have been hunted out of 40 percent of their range. As a result of these declines, the demand for tiger parts is sky rocketing.

Tiger expert Judith Mills told National Geographic that the main reason for the demand was that powerful forces continue to stimulate demand for tiger products.

“In China an estimated 6,000 tigers live on farms, waiting to be turned into rugs, tiger-bone wine and high-status entrées. That demand means that every wild tiger has a price on its head.”

Tiger breeding and export in South Africa appears to violate the country’s commitment to CITES regulations. If tigers are being bred for international trade in establishments without accreditation, it’s in violation of CITES Resolution Conf. 12.10, which requires registration of Appendix I breeding facilities operating for commercial purposes. There’s also CITES Decision 14.69, which requires such facilities to ‘implement measures to restrict the captive population to a level supportive only to conserving wild tigers; tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives’.

And Resolution Conf. 12.5 (Rev. CoP16) urges “Parties and non-Parties on whose territories tigers and other Asian big cat species are bred in captivity to ensure that adequate management practices and controls are in place to prevent parts and derivatives from entering illegal trade from or through such facilities”.

Tiger breeding began in South Africa in about 2000 when wildlife videotographer John Varty opened Tiger Canyons near Philappolis in the Free State and imported several cats as a rewilding project. Varty’s partners, Li Quan and Stuart Bray of the NGO Save China’s Tigers, broke with him following a court case in which they accused Varty of misusing the funds they donated in the making of a film, Living with Tigers. They opened the Laohu Valley Reserve nearby as a South China tiger rewilding project, but no cats are known to have been rewilded to their homeland.

In 2008 the NSPCA filed a case in the Supreme Court against Laohi Valley of cruelty to animals released into tiger enclosures to be hunted. The case was not upheld. At both centres people have been killed by big cats and in 2012 Varty was badly mauled by a tiger.

The report by Ban Animal Trading and EMS found 64 South African facilities in all provinces plus a number of backyarders in Gauteng breeding or housing tigers. Almost none were registered as CITES breeding facilities.

According to the report one facility, Mystic Monkeys and Feathers in Limpopo, appears to be a huge breeding facility for tigers, given the fact that they can export more than 15 tiger cubs at once and then still have tiger cubs available for petting at the zoo. Another facility, Mbidi Lodge in Limpopo, while not registered as a breeding facility, was found to often have tiger cubs which disappeared after a few months.

In a number of facilities, says the report, there have been media reports of suspected illicit trading. Voi Lodge – DKC Trading owned by Michael Chu, had more than 50 tigers and has been linked to criminal syndicates in Vietnam.

Leopard breeding outfit Letsatsi la Africa has been publicly linked by Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa to wildlife smuggling by the the Laos-based Xaysavang Network. The network was described by former US Secretary of State John Kerry as one “of the most prolific international wildlife trafficking syndicates in operation”.

Despite welfare issues, cruelty, illegality and violation of conservation principles, South Africa has turned a blind eye to tiger farming. According to the NSPCA, owning a pet tiger is legal in Gauteng and animal welfare groups can do nothing about it.

“Under the Animal Protection Act and the by-laws, we have no grounds to confiscate,” Boksburg SPCA Maggie Mudd told The Citizen newspaper.

“It doesn’t make sense that I need a permit to keep a tortoise but I can keep a tiger.”

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Originally posted by surefire7:
This is news to me. I didn't think Tigers existed in Africa. Did they report the correct animal?

What country?

The documentary Trophy that aired on CNN shows tigers in pens with penned lions.

The documentary does a good job as any balancing what good trophy hunting can do with the ha of some high fenced pinned outfits.

Watch it if you can.

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Originally posted by Jefffive:
I guess canned tiger hunts were inevitable.

They have conducted canned tiger killing for years. I grabbed this screenshot off Facebook in 2015.

Yes, definitely not knew . I read about it somewhere years ago. I believe I saw a video on line as well if my aging memory serves me correctly.

Simple solution to end canned hunts. No rifles and no rifle backup. Spears only and mano a mano.

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Originally posted by Kathi:
The State Nature Protection calculated the jungle tiger specimen's social value at €28,000.

? Social value? Can that be paid in handshakes? Hugs? Could you charge that as the receiver in other 'currencies'?
Because people don't like something the price goes up? Isn't that the opposite of capitalism?

I honestly do not understand all the uproar.

There are thousands of animal species which are bred for human use.

Why do some make some animals different than others??

I'm no fan of canned hunts, but to Saeed's point, why not farm these species for their parts? One would think this would reduce the pressure on the wild populations. The demand isn't going to disappear. The Asians are going to get what they want regardless of the source. And there is not going to be a wholesale change of culture to western standards anytime soon.

As John Hume said of rhinos, name one farmed animal that's gone extinct - you can't, because there are none.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I honestly do not understand all the uproar.

There are thousands of animal species which are bred for human use.

Why do some make some animals different than others??

Perfectly said. Pigs, cows, sheep, goats, chicken, etc are not going extinct. And why is a rhino's horn that much different from a sheep's wool?

And someone can't say because the tiger is intelligent - pigs are more intelligent that all game animals except elephants (humans, chimps, dolphins are also more intelligent, perhaps even ravens/crows).