I looked it up on the Internet, and it's still a self-proclaimed wild tiger organization, but why hasn't there been a successful case since it was established 30 years ago?
The netizen shouted: "Wandashan 1" is too lonely to play it by itself. With a tigress, let it go. Can captive tigers in Hulin Garden really be released into the wild?
This paper answers these questions.
What kind of organization is Northeast Tiger Forest Park?
Northeast Tiger Forest Park, formerly known as Hengdaohezi Cat Breeding Center, was established in 1986, when the wild Northeast Tiger in China was almost extinct. The establishment of this institution has two major goals: one is to use drugs for tiger bones that died naturally; Second, when the environment is restored, put the tiger back in the mountains.
To put it bluntly, it is actually a "tiger farm", whose main business is to raise tigers and sell tiger bones; By the way, do some research on tiger wildness.
The organization promises that all the proceeds from the trading of tiger bones will be used for the wildlife of Northeast tigers, which is euphemistically called "raising tigers with tigers".
This idea sounds really wonderful at first glance, but there are several fatal problems:
First of all, tigers can't be raised as domestic animals like pigs, cows and sheep. As a top predator at the top of the food chain, the cost of raising tigers is very high. Some experts estimate that it costs a huge amount of RMB to raise a tiger to adulthood, which is 250 times the cost of poaching.
Tigers live a long life. A normal tiger can live 15-20 years in the zoo. If you die of natural causes, the feeding and medical expenses during this period will be astronomical. Even if tiger bones sell at sky-high prices, it is difficult to cover this cost.
Secondly, it is very important that most people who are superstitious about the efficacy of tiger bones think that wild tiger bones are more effective than captive tiger bones. So these tiger bones that died naturally in the zoo may not be available at all.
On the one hand, captive tiger bones with high purchase price and low profit, and on the other hand, wild poached tiger bones with low purchase price and high profit. If you were a tiger bone dealer, which side would you choose?
Therefore, it is a joke to trade captive tiger bones to protect wild tigers, and it will make the situation of wild tigers worse. After all, with such a so-called formal trading channel for tiger bones, even wild tigers that have been poached can be said to have died naturally in captivity.
Fortunately, domestic academic circles have long realized that "no business, no killing".
1993, under the appeal of a group of experts and scholars with conscience, the State Council issued a ban on all trading in tiger bones.
Because this paper "tiger ban" and "tiger farm" can't sell tiger bones, there is no source of income. We can only turn to tourism to make money.
In order to maintain business, 1996 decided to let the tiger go out of the deep forest of Hengdaohezi to work in Harbin, a big city, and today's Northeast Tiger Forest Park came into being. This strategy is successful. Ticket revenue not only supports tigers and employees, but also supports the further development of Hulin Park, which now has more than 1 300 captive tigers.
However, the tiger bone transaction is very profitable, and they are not willing to give up directly. Instead, the tiger bone trade moved from the ground to the underground. A few years ago, the news repeatedly exposed that Hulin Park illegally sold tiger bone wine, and the price was still very expensive, 2800 yuan a catty.
Anyway, Tiger Forest Park makes a lot of money from tigers, so what about the wildness of tigers they keep saying?
The answer is, no.
What did Hulin Garden do for the wild?
In fact, in recent years, the Northeast Tiger Forest Park has not done any substantive work in the field of wilderness. None of the tigers in the park have received scientific wild training. On the contrary, under their unscientific management, these captive tigers will never be released into the wild again.
The Northeast Tiger Forest Park will also pretend to do some tiger field work, such as feeding some chickens and calves to share food with the tiger, taking the tiger to the wild fence and feeling the natural environment. However, the most important thing for tigers to be wild is to get rid of their dependence on human beings, and the Tiger Forest Park has staff by the side and even tourists visiting it all the time, which has not relieved tigers from their dependence on human beings at all. On the contrary, in order to make money, they also charge tourists to feed the tigers themselves.
This kind of wild training is a joke, with many elements of performance and hype.
These tigers have been in contact with human beings since childhood, and their dependence on human beings has been deeply imprinted in their minds, so they can no longer survive in the wild. If it is really released into the wild, there is a high probability that it will often go into the village to kill people and become a man-eating tiger like Tara, a captive tiger released into the wild in India in the 1970s. It is extremely irresponsible for people and tigers to release such tigers.
From the rescue of "Wandashan 1" some time ago, we also saw that there were many unprofessional places in the wilderness of Northeast Tiger Forest Park.
First, in the process of rescuing wild tigers, we should put an end to contact with people, but they let the masses watch the tigers, causing them to be angered in cages.
Second, wild tigers like "Wandashan 1" should be released into the wild as soon as possible as long as there are no health problems. Instead of creating an absurd 45-day quarantine period. Foreign animals entering China need to be isolated and can only be kept in the zoo. Wild tigers have no national boundaries, and it is normal for them to cross the Sino-Russian border. Is it necessary to stop all of them and isolate them first?
Third, during the isolation period, the tiger was kept in a cage of only 20 square meters, and no live prey was provided. Let's compare Russia's wild release, which is to carry out rehabilitation training in the virgin forest and provide live natural prey. This reflects the lack of necessary hardware construction and experience in releasing wild animals in Hulin Park.
Whether "Wandashan 1" will be released into the wild, whether the cognition of human beings will change, whether the strangeness to human beings will disappear and whether the aggressiveness will increase after this series of obscene operations in Hulin Garden is unknown.
Therefore, Tiger Forest Park, an institution that doesn't sell tiger bone wine, is no problem as an ordinary zoo for domestic tigers. But as a tiger wild research institution, it is not worthy.
Capturing wild tigers in captivity is a false proposition.
Of course, we should also see that there is no progress in the wild work of Siberian tigers in China, not all because of the inaction of Tiger Forest Park, but because there is no suitable place for wild tigers in China at present. Repairing the ecological environment and food chain is a huge project, which cannot be completed by enterprises like Hulinyuan.
In some historical distribution areas of the Northeast Tiger, such as Wandashan, Xiaoxing 'anling and Daxinganling, the number of red deer, roe deer and wild boar, the prey of the tiger, is now very rare. If we put tigers in these areas, there are only three possible outcomes. First, tigers starve to death. Second, they went to the village to eat livestock and hurt people. Third, they immigrated to become the tigers of Russia.
In fact, if the ecology of these places is restored, we don't need to raise tigers in the wild, and the pure wild Siberian tigers in Russia will come here by themselves, because some Russian protected areas are full of Siberian tigers now, and they are eager to have a new mountain to occupy.
In fact, the only Siberian tiger population that can breed in China, Changbai Mountain Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, naturally came from Russian Leopard National Park.
"Wandashan 1" and some stray male tigers that appeared in Wandashan area a few years ago are also large populations of Siberian tigers from Russia. Some male tigers in Taipinggou Nature Reserve in Xiaoxing 'anling are also wandering from the Russian "wild population" on the north bank of Heilongjiang.
In short, the environment is not good, and there is no way to let tigers go wild; Once the environment is good, as long as the ecological corridor is opened, the wild tigers will come by themselves, and there is no need to expand the wild tiger population by wild release.
Schematic diagram of three Russian tiger populations introduced into China, in which the female tiger has settled in the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, becoming a real settled tiger population.
Therefore, wildness is a meaningless false proposition for tiger protection.
It is only suitable for rare situations such as wild orphans and tiger cubs, but now it has been hyped as a panacea for protecting tigers. How about the wild South African tiger, Tiger Valley in Wadi and Northeast Tiger Forest Park? These wild things are for the sake of drunkenness, not wine, but RMB and US dollars.
Therefore, Chinese and foreign experts call for: instead of releasing tigers into the mountains, it is better to protect their habitats!
Tigers are wild.
"Wandashan 1" wasteland-Muling Dongxing Forest Farm, although there is no tigress, but not far to the south is the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, where there are many tigresses, there is no need to put a captive tigress as a companion. Moreover, captive tigers in the Northeast Tiger Forest Park cannot be released in the wild at all, and once released, they may be cannibals.
Therefore, the majority of netizens should not keep the company of "Wandashan 1" tigress. This is no joke. You can't joke. Good intentions may do bad things.