The irony is tragic in that those who celebrate the year of the tiger are the very ones who are systemically wiping these magnificent beasts off the face of the earth.

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the
mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration? When will all the killing imposed upon us be undertaken with sorrow?"
– Dr. Albert Schweitzer