For example:
Could someone tell me, why International Wildlife Organizations didn't take note of the following (and, therefore, didn't take ANY action of official or unofficial protest)?:
That a noticeable percentage (considering that the species is endangered) of Bengal Tigers--still alive on the Planet!--were being kept by an unstable hoarder, in North America; much less someone who had received citations, six years ago, for violations of animal management, including cruelty.
[Not to mention the potential danger to the Public, of so many carnivorous animals, who are being kept by someone not trained in Zoology.]
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So, therefore, let's call it, "Animalgrate".
--that this guy could not have operated with such IMPUNITY.
But he did.
Also...
Technically, the law was apparently on his side (bizarre, that an official statute could exist, to protect him )...but maybe because of the profitability factor, many non-activists also chose to look the other way.
But, apparently, many in the local area knew him, or knew about him, and what he was up to--including, and especially, the Police.
What's more, he was recently released from jail....
But yet, word must still get around: Not everyone has 30-odd Bengal Tigers on their property, even in locations where "Animal Rights" is unimportant.
Hard for me to believe that such knowledge wouldn't have eventually fallen on the ears of people who might have felt quite differently.
After all, this had been going on for years....so it stands to reason that out of sheer probability.....365 days a year, 1800 days every five years, etc.
Also, even if this guy had such incredible connections, why didn't International Organizations--ones who are aggressive about stopping such smuggling, such as international law enforcement and the international social cause movements, much less the WHO--be privy, to such practices...whereby the malfeasance was tracked and monitored at the global sources or at the intermediary points, along the way...
Dave Sacks, a spokesman for the United States Department of Agriculture, said that under the federal Animal Welfare Act, the agency monitors exotic animal owners only if they exhibit the animals to the public for compensation.
“The rub in Ohio is that U.S.D.A. does not regulate that sanctuary because Mr. Thompson does not exhibit his animals to the public for compensation,†Mr. Sacks said.
Will Travers, the chief executive of Born Free USA, a nonprofit advocacy group that supports wild animals and opposes the exotic pet trade, said that Ohio is one of only eight states that do not regulate exotic animals. It did briefly after a bear mauling, but Gov. John Kasich allowed the ban to expire.
“Ohio has a particularly bad record when it comes to exotics,†Mr. Travers said.
I think Governor Kasich--who, much earlier, claimed the ban could not be enforced--has, thankfully, caved to recent pressure from this adverse publicity.....and he is taking steps, apparently, for greater enforcement/restrictions....
I have since learned, from an author on the Domestic Exotic Animal Trade, that the World Wildlife Organizations do not regard breeding, of 'Exotic Animals', on the North Atlantic Continent, to be part of an endangered species list.
If 2,500 Bengal Tigers left, in all of Asia, are exceeded, by the number mananged in the States, they, technically, don't care.
I think they should (technically and otherwise).