White, Black & Golden Tigers

[tigerluver]

Clearly, you aren't reading anything I post thoroughly. Then you are interpreting the tidbits you read with your preconceptions. My standpoint is not the opposite extreme of you anti-captivity view. Captivity is a side project, a backup plan. You said poaching would increase on the tigers of the area. Copying and pasting from another post you didn't bother understanding and making it more specific so hopefully this time you get it:
Even then, a naturally occuring white tiger or two from rewilded heterozgotes popping here and there will increase poaching? So they'll start shooting orange tigers hoping one of them turns white? Poachers are ignorant, but not that much. 
I'll make it even more specific. A natural born white tiger from rewilded heterozygous parents occuring just like the accounts. Not one released from captivity. 
Answer that and maybe you'll convince me. 

Again, your retort doesn't fit what I'm saying, read the bold in my last post, if populations are low or on the way out. Captivity is a backup plan. Not a focus. Plus, rewilding does work. The horses are just one example.

You wrongly claimed that I was the one using that evidence to contradict myself. You posted that piece, not me. That piece is very broad and general. I want specific like you are asking of us. Yes, fortunately there have been success stories of nature making it back, such as the southern white rhino. But there have been more of nature not making its way back. The northern white rhino is a lost cause now for example. Just look up species extinction. More failures than successes. We need to be ready to whatever comes our way. I'm not being pessimistic as you think I am, I'm being realistic. Like Guate said, we're in no utopia.

Tigers are on their way to extinction, there's no denying that. In the last decade Panna and Sariska lost their tigers in the most successful tiger nation. Hopefully the wild population makes it, but for the tenth time, a captive population never hurts (it is a side project, the focus obviously should be on the wild population). Guate and I both agree that the white genes are probably gone from the wild. Think of it logically, not enough specimens and nothing has appeared in years. Pretty much how the Amurs are dwarves compared to their past. 

I've repeated myself multiple times, hopefully you get it now. Reply