One Year After Tiger King: What Have We Lear It has now been a little over a year since Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness took the internet by storm. The seven-part docu-series explores the world of tiger breeding and the intensely dramatic, twisted feud between collector, Joe Exotic, and big cat sanctuary owner, Carole Baskin. As I look back on my time watching the series last March in record speed (as many of us did), the only scenes I can recall include Baskin and Exotic. The context of big cats and conservation are hazy to me as these two unbelievably outlandish characters clawed my attention away. There is Nicholas Cage starring as Joe Exotic and competition series Dancing with the Stars. Amongst this roaring success, now I wonder: what have I learnt about tiger conservation in the series and how much attention did we all pay towards these and forth between Exotic and Baskin’s victim in the narrative is, the ultimate victims are the tigers restricted in unsafe and unviable living conditions. The owners have attracted the internet’s attention as the tigers are a backdrop to noted that the tigers are metaphorical But this should not be the sole setting for the drama, it should demand more attention, especially when seeing the park points to a wider issue of big cat case of negligent treatment of tigers including some owning tigers as pets without registering them, or entrapping these big cats in cages for roadside zoos. Tigers that breed cubs in cages will not be able to reintegrate into their natural wildlife habitat where they belong. These cramped conditions hinders their ability 26
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