'TIGERS OF THE SNOW (1997)
This programme charts the work of a man in the far eastern region of KAMCHATKA National Forest who attempts to help the native TIGER population by capturing a male and female pair and then keep them in captivity, behind a high fenced 5 acre (or more) enclosure.
It shows how the local authorities were able to track local tigers in the area which local people feared because they felt their lives or the livestock was in danger from these free roaming beasts.
I felt that the name would help provoke interest in this species which is the largest of its kind in the various forms of TIGER in the world today.
I was born in the Chinese year of the TIGER. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is written about this Astrological sign.
TIGERS are being poached for the pathetic excuse that their bones are considered to be a potent Aphrodisiac.
The same words could be used to describe ELEPHANT or RHINO horns. Whatever animal fits the narrative for the bone collector.
The TIGER can also represent our desire to tame nature and have absolute mastery over it by artfully hunting any apex predator that threatens our enjoyment of outdoor leisure activities.
It can also stand for FREEDOM, the relative freedom, as an animal and apex predator that the SIBERIAN TIGER once enjoyed not so many years ago, able to come and go as it pleased in such a vast sparsely populated wilderness that is the Russian environment.
What threat can it pose to anyone except those who actively choose to live in unity with the land like some of the Russian Mongoloid cultures ?
Surely those who live in harmony with nature would do NOTHING to harm these animals or any other creature without good reason, unless it threatened a family member like a child or predated many of a tribe's or family's cattle or its ability to successfully hunt deer or other local animals in the vicinity.
TaigaSibirskaya has nothing to do with Russia, or Russian government.
It is an ambiguous name and a double-entendre as Sibirskaya can also refer to CYBER (Internet)
SIBERIA is such a vast area that it makes me feel that I am somewhere and nowhere, fixed to a location but free to roam it.
The future of the animal kingdom could revert to artificial insemination or other techniques to recreate life in the wilderness. One can be through the medium of ZOOs located all over the world, in every country.
We cannot simply turn out back upon NATURE and move to the large towns and cities for our convenience where we can then become fat, utilising convenience stores and internet shopping to buy our stuff from now on.
We are inherently connected to Nature. By removing ourselves from it, we can quickly bastardise it through taming it with artificial forestry, planations, farms and wind farms.
We now live in an age where animals need us to survive. We can kill the animals and become vegetarians if we wish, but it would be a shame to put the final dagger into the wilderness and claim our prize as the outright apex predator on the planet.
We could quickly move into mad science and the creation of new creatures or the recreation of old ones, like the desire to resurrect the Dinosaurs of old.
We are replacing God's creations with our own godliness (small -g-)
The NEW WORLD ORDER will come forward and demand that we cordon off vast tracts of land to make space for the wilderness, in the hope that we can repopulate the landscape with once magnificent creatures, great and small.
