by Allison Skidmore | Jun 4, 2020 | Wildlife Conservation
Zoos are a paradoxical entity in that our desire for the continued freedom of wild animals has strangely come to justify their captivity, legitimizing domestication, in that, the zoo animal enters the stage as a monument to the wild animal’s disappearance in...
by Allison Skidmore | Apr 7, 2020 | Tiger Conservation
Over the past 20 years weak federal regulations has engendered a pervasive threat to both animal welfare and conservation. Many of us have not realized our dangerous complacency by allowing the marginalization of one of the world’s most iconic species. Images of...
by Allison Skidmore | Jan 7, 2020 | Tiger Conservation
One topic I find particularly frustrating is the perpetuation of ‘white’ tigers in our culture. Due to the captive tiger crisis, there is a lack of salient public awareness as to what a real tiger is. There is one recognized species of tiger, Panthera tigris, divided...