A very endangered species
\nAnd Humans Primarily
\nAre the threat beyond all others
\nAnd really hold the key
\nTo whether this great animal
\nCan survive it\u2019s vast domain
\nLiving on China\u2019s doorstep
\nIt casts a wide refrain<\/p>\n
Its threat is Traditional Medicine
\nTheir bones for tiger cake
\nPoaching and the Black Market
\nThe authentic unlike the fake
\nWild Tigers roaming
\nUp to 1000 km alone
\necologically unbroken country
\nAnd this is widely known <\/p>\n
Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais
\nThe Russian Far East
\nSIKOTE ALIN mountains
\nWhere you might find this beast
\nBut it\u2019s very existence
\nInto perpetuity
\nIs dependent Very much on China
\nTherein it\u2019s adversity<\/p>\n
I mean it\u2019s undeniable
\nThe quantities now used
\nWild tiger bones are the bees knees
\nWhich is why they are abused
\nTigers the world over
\nKnow the threat is there
\nThe price tag is now through the roof
\nAs is lasting despair<\/p>\n
Every part of the tiger
\nHas its place in the healing, and
\nThe bones get pride of place
\nWhich is hard to understand
\nHuguJiu or tiger bone wine
\nBanned in 1993
\nA switch was made to South Africa
\nAnd Canned Hunting LIONS
\nAnd adversity<\/p>\n
Exported to Vietnam
\nAnd processed there to make
\nUsing tortoise shell and monkey
\nAnd lion ground up as TIGER CAKE
\nAnd so vast numbers of Lions are killed
\nFarmers stopped growing fruit
\nAn farmed Lions Blood they spilled
\nGallons of it in this racket
\nThe cnning Of the Chinese Who were not aware<\/p>\n
So Wild Tigers are at a premium
\nPrice
\nWith habitat loss
\nAt the end of the day
\nFarming and buildings
\nAnd logging is meant
\nConflict for the Tiger
\nWho was heaven sent<\/p>\n
The tiger apothecary
\nIs highly prized
\nFrom it\u2019s eyeballs to its penis
\nIt\u2019s whiskers to its brains
\nIt\u2019s razored claws
\nAnd massive canines
\nBy ingesting the beast
\nThen it underlines<\/p>\n
It\u2019s vigour it\u2019s strength
\nIt\u2019s amazing life force
\nEven it\u2019s feces
\nAnd fur !
\nIs a source
\nOf wonder and healing
\nReverence and awe
\nSurrounds this great creature
\nPerhaps for evermore.<\/p>\n
Panthera Tigris mates all
\nOf the year
\nWhen she is ready
\nShe scratches and pee\u2019s
\non a tree then
\nfor 5 or 6 days they will be
\nStaying together it seems Constantly
\nThen the gestation 3 months
\nOr so and that the life cycle
\nAnd the cubs wil then grow<\/p>\n
They are mighty big
\nWith a Much bigger head
\nLighter fur than the others
\nBut that being said
\nImmensely rare
\nAt the end of the day
\nAnd when they are the predator
\nWolves stay away<\/p>\n
They like to eat Musk Deer
\nWapiti and Boar
\nHares Rabbits Pika\u2019s
\nAnd Salmon and more
\nBears on the menu
\nAnd Lynx sometimes too
\nBut Not as predation
\nJust a frightener who
\nIn unlikely to frequent
\nThe territory
\nSo it\u2019s elimination
\nSensorially<\/p>\n
The Tungusic people
\nShow them respect
\nEven as a deity
\nThey will elect
\nThe tiger
\nand other Indigenous do
\nHold the Brave tiger
\nIn illustrious view<\/p>\n
CITES an end to farming
\nWe hear
\nThis amazing animal
\nBrings some to cheer
\nBut the poachers now need
\nSentences that include death
\nTo succeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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