- Root of problem is that white tigers are popular and is helping increase revenues and attendance in zoos and animal parks.
- Man breeding white tigers serves no conservation purpose
- Letting our public know about things is the first step in conservation.
- There are only 5 living subspecies of tigers left. Three others are already extinct
- An estimate puts the world population of white tigers around 5,000-7,000 with the most numerous race being Bengal race. Accounting for over two-thirds of all wild tigers
- We are lucky that we have six sub-species still alive. (Bengal Tiger, Amur Tiger, South China Tiger, Indochinese Tiger, Sumatran Tiger, and the Malayan Tiger)
- We have lost the Javan Tiger, Bali Tiger, and the Caspian Tiger
Will our fascination with tigers give them back the dignified, free life that they had earned by surviving every hardship nature threw at them before we came along? Or will we be satisfied that we have done our job by having enough of them living in cages, performing tricks, and dazzling us with genetic deformities we would never dream of perpetuating in humans? If we choose the second option, then there is one more reality that we must be willing to accept. If we pull animals that we like out of the sinking ship that is their destroyed habitat, put them in cages, and call it a day, every single species that we do not find charismatic goes down with that ship. And with them go clues that could unlock the mysteries of the natural world—along with answers to questions that we perhaps no longer deem fundamental, because we have so thoroughly removed ourselves from that world. It begs one of those fundamental questions: if we can’t let other creatures assume their own roles in the broader ecosystem, how can we assume ours? (Beach,2010) White tigers:conserving a lie. Advocacy For Animals from http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2010/02/white-tigers-conserving-misery/#more-1207