I guess what I mean are the good willed people. I know of people that are of the type mentioned that just throw ood and water in. I try to educate them that is not the way to treat an animal. Some will listen, some will not. Luckily now they are passing laws that will prohibit people from owning certain animals which will raise the success of captive animals today but not enough. I go to the local zoo, The Henry Doorly Zoo here in Omaha and see tigers kept in what I would concider minimal if that for such a miraculous animal. I just through those numbers together from my own experience all though far from correct, just a simple estimate & not expected to be correct. Check out these links
http://www.cathouse-fcc.org/rescue.html
http://www.bigcatrescue.org/tiger.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...er_africa.html
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ava...ted/Thesis.pdf