With regards to the Tiger Temple, you may be interested to hear that, after carrying out undercover research in the temple and additional investigation, British wildlife charity, Care for the Wild International (CWI) has now released its upsetting report. There are significant welfare issues, as well as false claims of conservation, illegal trading and human safety concerns.

Please visit the following link to read it: http://www.careforthewild.com/news.asp?detail=true&I_ID=578§ion=Latest+News

Not only is the temple housing the animals in poor confined conditions (for 20-21 hours per day) and harassing them through beatings and spraying of urine into their faces but also they have been involved in ILLEGAL TRADING of their older tigers to a tiger farm in Laos.

We are contacting people on the internet to request that they cease promoting Tiger Temple as a place that tourists should visit on their holidays. We are also contacting people who have written general blogs about the Temple. People view these blogs and want to go visit the tigers for themselves, however this sadly meant that the tigers will continue to be systematically abused and traded there. We are also contacting tour operators and the like.

Please feel free to email me with your comments or questions on this matter.

Best wishes

Claire Palmer
Programme Officer – Commercial Exploitation of Wildlife
Care for the Wild International (CWI)

Media interest in investigation:

National Geographic News, 20 June 2008
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080620-tiger-temple.html

The Straits Times on June 21, 2008.
http://travel.asiaone.com/Travel/News/Story/A1Story20080623-72311.html

Video footage on YouTube:

Tiger Temple/ Animal Cruelty -1

Tiger Temple/ Animal Cruelty, Moving with Force- 2

Tiger Temple/ Aggressive Tigers – 3

Tiger Temple/ Injured Tiger- 4

Tiger Temple/ Restrained for Photo-taking- 5

Tiger Temple/ Visitor Safety Risks- 6

Tiger Temple/ Enclosures- 7