Comments on: Paper Tiger: Chinese Officials Admit that Photo of Rare South China Tiger Was a Fake

By: Visitor

Visitor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:09:26 +0000

I would say using a poster is not much of “photographic skills” as you put it. At any rate, political and conservation policy issues surrounding the Chinese tiger can be tortuous. The Wold Bank released this year an initiative to help protect wild tigers, which triggered quite a degree of bickering from some groups. The Chinese tiger has become the center of a hot debate in a blog of the East-Asia/ Pacific group of the Bank.

http://eapblog.worldbank.org/content/hot-passion-tigers-and-shoe-shops

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By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:54:53 +0000

“Yet, this is not the first use of photographic skills to overcome environmental damage.”

How did you come to the conclusion that the photo was faked to cover up environmental damage?

And the antelope photo was faked by the photographer, not the government.

Looks like we are very fond of the conspiracy theories about the Chinese government, aren’t we?