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Against the backdrop of the dwindling tiger populations in the wilds, Tiger
Canyons was established 25 km north west of the town of Philippolis on the
Van der Kloof Lake in the Karoo of South Africa.
Tiger Canyons is the brainchild of John Varty, a South African
conservationist and filmmaker who specializes in Big Cats....read more
Tai truck driver arrested smuggling SIXTEEN tiger
cubs who were 'destined to be killed and chopped up for use in
traditional Chinese medicine'
Officers discovered the animals, who were one to
two years old, packed in eight cages.
The driver, Faren Kongfu, told police he was paid
15,000 baht (£300) to deliver the cubs from a Bangkok suburb to
northeastern Udon Thani province on the border with Laos.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224017/Thai-truck-driver-arrested-trying-smuggle-SIXTEEN-tiger-cubs-animal-parts.html#ixzz2BLP7K5Qi
Voronin Big Cat Safari Breaks All Records
A recent Big Cat Safari with Alex and Tanya
Voronin photographed no less than 11 leopards and 9 tigers during
their 10 day stay at Londolozi and Tiger Canyons. In addition lion
and cheetah of the cats were seen on several occasions as well as 16
hyena cubs at a den site....read more
The Journey to Nowhere
picture: JV
Effectively what I was offering the Eastern
Cape, was two high profile tourist attractions in the leopard
and the tiger...read more
The John Hume Approach
The Northern White Rhino - Extinct!!
I need to buy a new farm every year, fence it and
prepare it for 101 rhinos. This will cost me currently about
R12 million and then to manage, protect and feed them another R2
million per year....read more
Response to Rhino Horn Auction
How sad that Mr Varty chooses this option for
our wildlife knowing full well that the once off sale of Ivory to
Japan and China has fuelled this Elephant poaching crises that we
have today. Tragic that this is what he wants for our rhino....see
more
A Letter to John Hume, SA biggest Rhino Breeder
If they do not grant you permission for the auction
then you create a global event...read more
First Prize - Big Cat Safari with John Varty at
Londolozi Game Reserve and at Tiger Canyons
Rules:
1) You have to enter only 6 pictures: 3x tiger pictures and 3x
leopard pictures
2) Each picture score points out of 10 - winner will be the one with
the highest number out of 60. One bad picture will give you a bad
score...
3) Pictures can be taken anywhere in the world
4) Picture size: not more than 500KB
5) Closing date: 30th September 2013
Do NOT send more than 3 tiger pictures
Do NOT send more than 3 leopard pictures
Do NOT send only tiger or only leopard pictures
Do NOT send more than 500KB per picture
You will be disqualified!
A Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Mr. Prime Minister, if you genuinely want to save
the magnificent tiger, then create parks where guests from all over
the world can interact with your tigers the way they interact with
leopards at Londolozi....read more
Indian Government - the wrong decision
To deny future generations that heart-stopping moment
- when one sights a tiger in the wild - is no solution...read
more
What price must beauty pay?
In fact as Fiona Macleod's excellent article shows,
lion body parts can be exported legally from South Africa. Therefore
it's possible that rhino horn is moving labeled as lion body parts....read
more
Very graphic pictures from:
JV recovered from the tiger attack - we do game
drives at Tiger Canyons
pic Sunette
Corbett's Freedom
Lethal Injection or Freedom?
Corbett (right) with siblings, Sariska and Panna (picture Sunette)
If anyone has an alternative to my proposal,
I would welcome any other route. Let's explore every avenue
possible....Corbett will be darted and then killed by lethal
injection by a professional vet....read
more
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www.facebook.com/tigeralert
or on our blog:
www.jvbigcats.blogspot.com
John Varty talks from hospital in Bloemfontein...
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Who has the best vision of the of the big Cats...
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Who is the fastest...
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Lion or tiger, who is the strongest...read
more
Cheetah at Tiger Canyons...read more
Seeking the Genes....
read more
Corbett's Journey....
read more
While "Shy Boy" mates 150 times over 4 days with "TiBo"...read
more
Contribute to tiger conservation - JV Image Library...see
more
The tigers have 5 curved sharp, vicious meat hooks, which extend when
fighting...read more
Voronin Big Cat Safari Breaks All Records, 11
leopards, 9 tigers...read more
Effectively what I was offering the Eastern Cape, was two high profile
tourist attractions in the leopard and the tiger...read
more
The John Hume Approach to save rhino's...read
more
Auction of rhino horn: If they do not grant you permission for the
auction then you create a global event....read
more
Mr. Prime Minister, if you genuinely want to save
the magnificent tiger, then create parks where guests from all over
the world can interact with your tigers the way they interact with
leopards at Londolozi....read more
The news has broken that the Indian Government is far
down the tracks with legislation that will ban tourism from their parks...read
more
Therefore it's possible that rhino horn is moving labeled as lion body
parts...read more
Corbett will be darted and then killed by lethal
injection by a professional vet....read
more
It struck me that these were
my last moments on planet Earth....read
more
Tiger Canyons is making a calendar called
"Tigresses" which celebrates the beautiful ladies who have done so
much for tiger conservation over many years...read
more
Jos & Yvette Van Bommel have produced the most
stunning book called "Chuffing Tigers"...read
more
Rhino breeders have appealed to the Government to
allow them to trade the rhino horn, just like a farmer trades the
wool from his sheep...read more
How is it that provincial officials
can simply reject a R50 million project which will create 60 jobs
immediately and later over 100 jobs...read more
I have been given a price of $15,000 for the body
parts of an average size tiger. Therefore, 550 lions at $15,000 amounts
to $8,250,000 or around R58 million...read
more
...Jeremy Taylor recorded a song called "The Immorality
Law". It suggested that the first thing that Jan van Riebeeck
and his men did when they landed at the Cape, was to crossbreed
all the black ladies to create the coloured race of South
Africa....read more
Information
on Wikipedia is being maliciously changed and altered to cast doubt on
the integrity of John Varty and the Tiger Canyons project...read
more
Approach your national parks to create protected areas for wild
tigers...read more
The more time I spend in the company of Big
Cats, the more I believe we underestimate their ability to
communicate...read more
Tributes to Savannah...read
more
The 3.6 metre electrified fence was dwarfed in places by
a surging lake flowing over the canyon...read
more
The male and founding tiger of Tiger Canyons, Ron, has
died at Tiger Canyons aged 11,5 years old....read
more
Corbett rises from the operation, a thin
scar has replaced the gaping wound. Corbett has been
restored to a handsome male tiger...read
more
JV's book, Nine Lives. Memoirs of a Maverick
Conservationist, John Varty...read
more
I now have evidence that
suggests Shine was darted by poachers attempting to kill or steal her
... Another male tiger, Sariska,
left Tiger Canyons either dead or alive, on the same night ....read
more
I regret to inform you that
on the 15th of August 2010, the white Tigress Shine was killed by a
young male tiger called Corbett....read more
..lets presume the South Africa Government took the same money
and recreate a huge national park, a Serengeti of the
South, ... read more
In fact, the animal lives to suffer the side
effects - not once, but repeatedly...read
more
The bankers
gun is rotating wildly, he has a bad attack of "buck fever", there is no
ways he will hit the target. "Rest the gun over my shoulder" I command...read
more
At Tiger Canyons, the tigers continue to thrive
and Julie's four cubs are growing rapidly. We
have observed interesting behavior from Seatao,
the father of the cubs...read
more
Emotions have run high across the world with
many people requesting that I pull Runti out and
hand raise her...read
more
However, to standby and watch the tiny cub fight for
its life, is an incredibly hard emotional
experience...read more
Savannah apparently understands perfectly well, for she
rather clumsily picks up the cub in her mouth and
returns it to the den...read
more
Emotion is running high across the world regarding my
statement that tigress Julie is unlikely to raise her five
cubs to maturity, and if one or two perish along the way
then I will not interfere...read
more
Surderban destroys
JV's EX1 camera...read more
Julie gives birth to 5 tiger
cubs.
I was able to enter the den of Tigress
Julie and film and photograph five tiny new born cubs, one of
which is white...read more
International Tiger Day
If we cannot save the tigers, I assure you we cannot save
ourselves, it is as simple as that....read
more
Tiger Photo Gallery
View pictures
I have formed Tiger Photo Gallery and
I am inviting all photographers who have visited Tiger
Canyons or any Tiger Sanctuary, for that matter, to
submit 6 of your most interesting pictures to Tiger
Photo Gallery...read more
I found her lying on her back with her paws in the air.
Through the binoculars I could see an ugly gash on the
bottom of her pad on the rear right leg. The bullet must
have deflected off the ground upwards just catching her
across the pad...read more
My worst fears were confirmed when I
discovered a male tiger cub, caught in a strong wire
cable. The cable was tight around his waist and I could
see where he had frantically ripped up the soil in an
attempt to escape...read
more
Shine a White Light.
Three helpless, newly born tiger cubs, lie in the grass.
Their mother has abandoned them and they are at the mercy of
the elements....read more
Tiger burial. t was a solemn, touching ceremony as I and her surviving
cub watched her bury the body parts...read
more
At Londolozi Game Reserve, I am sitting with an 16 year
old leopard who I call "Manana", the mother.
She is probably the most famous and photographed leopard
in the world ...read more
Tiger Birth at Tiger Canyons
Shadow bit the umbilical cord, ate the afterbirth and
cleaned the membrane off the cub with her rough tongue.
For a tigress giving birth to her first litter, she was
doing surprisingly well....
read more
Invest in Tigers
This Newsletter is addressed to the hundreds of Indian
conservationists who have corresponded with me this last year....read
more
Tiger Courting
At Tiger Canyons, the two tigresses Julie and Shadow,
are in separate territories divided by a wire barrier. Each tigress
comes into estrus within hours of the other...read
more
Big Cat Safari
with John Varty
(Tiger Canyons & Londolozi)
read more...
Elephant Trust
I see that the minister of environment of South
Africa, has lifted the moratorium on culling of elephant...read
more
Privatizing the Tiger
Thousands of tigers exist in zoos around the world, earning
money for their masters as "displays", while the tigers in the
wild dwindle away as human beings take the last of their prey
and home range...
read more
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