First of all, I’m not the one acting like a vaginal liberal and downvoting dissenting opinions into oblivion. That’s the people on this site who apparently love Joe Exotic. They can’t call themselves conservatives and cry about being banned from reddit when they do the same shit here.

So don’t lecture me as if I’m shutting down debate, because I’m not. I’m dismayed to see idiots here behaving in precisely the same way liberals do.

Secondly, who told you that keeping tigers in backyards and in unaccredited zoos is a way to save the species?

And where did you get the impression that tigers are not going to survive “in the wild”?

The reason tigers are going extinct is:

1. Chinese cunts who have an insatiable appetite for tiger parts for traditional Chinese “medicine,” which creates an incredibly lucrative market for poachers.
2. Habitat destruction by humans.

Go look up any example of iconic megafauna: Orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, lions, cheetahs, leopards, rhinos, elephants...they are all on the verge of extinction.

Every single one of them. We have killed off more than 2/3 of all wildlife on the planet.

Not because they can’t exist in the wild, but because of us. That is emphatically not the normal course of extinction.

Now people will say “Animals go extinct all the time and the Earth goes on.”

Yes. But that doesn’t mean humanity will survive a barren planet without any other life except for a handful of domesticated animals. We are going to assfuck ourselves with the removal of keystone species and the resulting cascade failure.

As for this idea that keeping tigers in backyards and zoos is a way to save the population, not a single expert or conservationist would ever agree with that notion. I don’t know where you got that idea, but it’s simply not true. These are animals that range up to 50 miles a day in the wild and are susceptible to extreme zoochosis in captivity.

That means they go crazy in confinement.

If the only tigers left in the world are tigers in backyards and shitty zoos, after a few generations they’re not going to be tigers anymore, they’ll be shadows of what they once were, marking the beginning of a gradual but inexorable change if they manage to survive.

The only way to guarantee the survival of the species is by marking off large preserves and making sure there’s enough money to properly defend the preserves from poachers. Because I guarantee you, as long as there are Chinese people on this earth, animals like tigers will be in danger.