TheSriracha Tiger Zoo was a zoo inSri Racha, a city on the outskirts ofPattaya, a seaside city inChonburi Province,Thailand. It was about 110 km (68 mi) fromBangkok. The zoo claimed a large population of tigers and crocodiles.
Due to the Thai economy's collapse in 2021 as a result of theCOVID-19 pandemic, Sriracha Tiger Zoo had to close its doors.[1][2]
Photographs of a female tiger nursingpiglets wrapped in tiger skin, accompanied by a fictitious story about a zoo inCalifornia, were actually taken at Sriracha.[3]
TheAnimal Welfare Institute reported in 2004 that the zoo had been using tigers and elephants in circus shows, including tigers leaping through rings of fire, walking across a double tightrope, parading around a ring on their hind legs, and riding on horseback.[4] AWI reported "potentially dangerous human-tiger and human-elephant close interaction", "bizarre multi-species enclosures", tigers being struck with steel poles by trainers and implications that tigers were being bred for export toChina.[4]
World Animal Protection reported in 2016 that the tigers 'appeared in the poorest condition of all those observed in our research.'[5]
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