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Tiger Temple Thailand

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Posted on May 31 2016 by Bemused Backpacker 32 Comments After years of false starts impotent warnings and failed attempts the Thai authorities have finally grown a backbone and confiscated all of the tigers in the infamous tiger temple essentially shutting it down and it is about damn. Adisorn Nuchdumrong deputy director of Thailands Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant. Tiger Temple Monastery At Kanchanaburi Thailand Inditales The temple rescued its first tiger in 1999 an orphaned cub that had been found in a local village. Tiger temple thailand . Deep in Western Thailand in the forests near the border with Myanmar Burma rests a forest monastery but not just any monastery Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua better known as Tiger Temple. Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua or the Tiger Temple is a Theravada Buddhist forest temple in western Thailand. According to reports 8 cubs in need of rescue were later brought to the temple. It was criticized by animal rights activists because of allegat