(TH) Tiger temple sues Newspaper and Wildlife Protector

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Tiger temple " fights " back allegations of illegal wildlife possesion and animal

torture

 

The Tiger temple in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, has charged Wildlife

Friends Foundation Thailand founder and director Edwin Wiek and the Thai Post

Newspaper with defamation over an article published in the Thai Post in March

2009. In the article Edwin Wiek was quoted saying the tiger temple illegally

obtained some wild animals and that the temple was involved in animal torture.

 

The Tiger temple claims their good name and reputation are tarnished by the

publication of these remarks. They deny that animals are illegally obtained or

that animals are tortured. At the Tiger Temple tigers are being kept in tiny

enclosures all day only to be chained up for a few hours to sit and lay down as

photo-props for mainly foreign tourists in an open showground. To keep the

tigers obedient staff of the tiger temple spray urine in their faces and beat

and drag the tigers around. Claims that tigers are drugged to keep them docile

have been confiremd by many ex-volunteers at the temple. Accordidng to the

temple the tiges wandered in to the temple out of the forests asking for help

and were never bought. The temples tiger were confiscated in 2002 by the

government but were allowed to stay on their grounds as there were no cages

available at the government rescue centers to take them in.