John Varty & Tiger Canyon

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12-11-2018, 03:54 PM

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John Varty

A mother tiger (Bengal×Siberian hybrid) Julie from Canada captive zoo and savanna captive born lioness raised by Julie hunted together in Tiger canyons private reserve (approx 80 km^2 sheep farm land) set up in 2000, based on Tiger Rewilding or rehabilitation project by John Varty (he is tiger man in Africa like Kevin Richardson who is lion man in Africa) and Dave Salmoni near Philippolis,free state province, Karoo in South Africa. It has no conservative importance as they don't have pure genetics. A wild population survived in this area in controlled environment with separated African cheetah,African Leopard and many animals native to Africa like blue wildebeest,plains zebra, many antelopes,cape hare,etc…., John Varty dream is to see all the 4 big cats (cheetah,leopard, lion and tiger like in historical India and other parts of Asia where all of them co-existed together) in one environment.

In this video, savanna (lioness) with her mother (tigress Julie-raised savanna with caring and nourished with her milk).

Though Tigers are not native to Africa, but they are very adaptive almost any environment and some tigers live in similar habitat like in Africa of Asia. Before the tiger colonized the Africa,humans intervened in prehistory making them confined to India and some part in a Pakistan in south and Europe in North near black sea and the same went with Asiatic lions for distributing in Asia confining them to India because of human intervention and resistance from other big cat the tiger colonizing Asia. Many oppositions against this project are continuing as there is no conservative importance as those are Bengal-Siberian hybrids and claims are there that they are misusing the funds. JV and Dave Salmoni together filmed documentary on Living with tigers (2003) aired on Discovery channel. JV also filmed in Tiger Man of Africa in national geographic channel (2011). JV is a big cat expert, wild life film maker and childhood hunter like his dad Charles Varty along with his brother. After his dad death both brothers left hunting and became wild life conservationists. JV first visited Ranthambore and kanha NP in India 1970’s where he saw only one tiger. But from that day he developed interested for them and started loving them and studying them. At that time he found that there were endangered and felt very sad and determined to protect these beautiful big cats from extinction. So he wanted to conserve a wild tiger population outside Asia because in case of any natural disasters or epidemics or and still continuing poaching and hunting in Asia if all wild tigers populations are wiped then there should be should a second chance for their survival outside Asia that is in Africa. So he wanted to rehabilitate the tiger sub-species mainly the royal tigers from captive in Canada and African zoos by teaching them hunting and survival instincts and skills for survival in wild. After their survival he wanted to release them African wild but due to the recent fact that the big cats are Bengal-Siberian tiger hybrids and not Bengal tigers the project lost its conservative importance and there are claims and opposition's that the tiger are unable to hunt and JV and his crew are chasing prey to tiger paths in order to make or shoot documentary films and earn money through funding and money.