So long as wildlife organizations cannot decide (where necessary)between irreplaceable wildlife and all-too-replaceable hunters, poachers, subsistence farmers and industrial logging vested interests, they will never halt this cancer of wildlife destruction, which has followed the destruction of the European empires after 1945 (and now that of the Soviet "empire").

The author of Fight For The Tiger wrote the book to DO something, not to commemorate the death of this magnificent species. The book explains how he came to do this, then details how he came up against the embedded "aid" bureaucracies etc.

What a tragedy it would be if the tiger were to disappear from the wild. It is an avoidable tragedy. Fight for the Tiger!


must-have for everyone who is really interested in wildlife!   February 4, 2003
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

First of all - I must agree with the two other reviewers about Michael Day`s writing style. But Day is no writer, he is a conservationist and fighter - and he is an excellent one!

Having read quite a lot about tigers and their conservation, this is by far the most impressing work I ever put my hands on.
It is hard but it is so, so valuable. I cried in the bus while reading it because the story he has to tell is not a nice one. And it`s chilling to think that it might never have been recovered and written if it wasn`t for the author`s personal crisis which brought him to Thailand in the first place.

We all know that the tiger is close to extinction and that man has done his fair share - but this book shows the big crime in all detail, not missing out on the uncomfortable bits nor being afraid of naming the criminals.

Days work is unpayable - not only letting the world know but he has also made big achievements regarding the trade in tiger parts.

5 stars for this good job!!


A real eye-opener.   October 10, 1999
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I thought this book was a real eye-opener. The book was not the best written book I have read but the content certainly made up for it. I was completely engrosed in it from the moment I started it and would recommend it to anyone who has any compassion whatsoever for these awesome creatures or conservation of wildlife in general.


A real eye-opener.   October 10, 1999
I thought this book was a real eye-opener. The book was not the best written book I have read but the content certainly made up for it. I was completely engrosed in it from the moment I started it and would recommend it to anyone who has any compassion whatsoever for these awesome creatures or conservation of wildlife in general.


Good content let down by poor style   August 28, 1999
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Whilst I was most interested in the work that this guy has been doing, I simply could not bring myself to read this book, written in a poor narrative style and begining like an Indiana Jones adventure. Some very good, but very upsetting pictures.