Comments on: Every year is Year of the Tiger at South Africa’s Tiger Canyons

By: Wanda Hennig

Wanda Hennig — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:36:31 +0000

Did all five tigers survive? The cub that John Varty named Runty did not. Read the maverick conservationist’s Tiger Canyons blog here on Runti’s first "kill"; the hope that she will survive; the grief of her death; and how Julie’s burial of her cub: www.jvbigcats.co.za/newsletters31.htm

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:10:56 +0000

Varty is doing very much what the Natal Parks Board did in the 1960s and 1970s when they captured and translocated the almost extinct white rhino from its last redoubt in Zululand, putting breeding groups into game reserves across southern Africa and zoos in Europe and America. When humanity recovers from the madness that pushed the rhino and the tiger to the edge of extinction, they will be able to resume their natural range in Africa and Asia. There have indeed been tigers in Africa all along. The old Afrikaners used the word “tier” (tiger) for a leopard.

By: Dana M.

Dana M. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:17:24 +0000

Amazing story. Who would think of tigers in Africa? Thanks for the great read. Inspiring guy, that Balfour.