After reading ‘A Tiger Fighter is Hard to Find’ I was interested in China’s laws and regulations of animal protection. While researching I found out some interesting facts. “In 2018, the government took a leap in the wrong direction when a 25-year ban on the use of tiger bone and rhino horn in traditional medicine was repealed, replaced by a new directive which allowed use of captive-bred tiger bone and rhino horn in some circumstances. Despite statements that implementation of the new policy was to be delayed, a continued failure to adopt an unambiguous ban and phase out commercial breeding is still putting tigers and rhinos at risk.” (https://eia-international.org/wildlife/saving-tigers/tiger-farming/chinas-wildlife-protection-law/). I noticed this seemed similar to the story, when Director Yu talked to his friend at the Municipal Administration to make sure they could kill the tiger without conservation and animal protection law repercussions. They had the tiger shot to death and it took a while to die. This seemed very unethical in my opinion. The director took the tiger from the wild using loopholes and also found a way to kill the tiger for its skin using another loophole just for his own profit in the movie. Conservation and animal protection laws do not work when things like these are allowed to fly under the radar. I also thought it was interesting that they allowed Little Dou to play the tiger and get beat very badly while the director refused to allow anyone to intervene. Not only did they have little care or regard for the tigers life, but also no regard for the safety and wellbeing of their employees.
A tiger fighter is hard to find
