Four caretakers stay at the center and take turns looking after seven tigers. Now, each tiger weighs about 40 kilograms and the diet costs VND5 million/day, not including drugs or fees for looking after them.

A camera placed in a forest captured the image of the first tiger seen in Pu Mat National Park (Nghe An) in 1999. Twenty-two years have passed and no other image of a tiger has been captured in the forests of Vietnam.

After the police force in the central province of Nghe An rescued 17 adult tigers illegally raised in cages by two families in Do Thanh commune in Yen Thanh district, Nghe An province, eight of the tigers died.

Conservation groups say poaching is on the rise as tourism income dries up at wildlife reserves.

Vietnam remains a hot spot for wildlife hunting and trafficking despite efforts to curtail it.

After a 13-year-old boy in Tho Xuan district of Thanh Hoa province was clawed by a tiger raised at a tiger farm, wildlife conservationists urged better control over development of tiger breeding facilities.

VietNamNet Bridge - Wildlife conservation organizations have voiced their concern about the increasingly high number of wild animal farms in Vietnam, saying that the existence of the farms make it difficult to control wildlife trafficking.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in northern Yen Bai Province's Luc Yen District have confirmed the existence of tigers in the local forest, according to district People's Committee chairman Hoang Kim Trong.