ANIMAL conservation groups and others are up in arms after
pictures featuring Singapore actress Wong Li-Lin draped in a tiger
pelt appeared in the weekly celebrity magazine 8 Days.
Among the strongest reactions were those from Singapore's branch
of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), which has asked MediaCorp,
the magazine's publisher, to print an apology.
Others criticised the magazine for sending the wrong message
about a highly-endangered animal.
It is not known if the pelt was real: MediaCorp declined to
answer when asked.
But WWF Singapore's managing director, Ms Amy Ho, said that
whether it is real or not is beside the point.
'It sends out the wrong message about tigers and could encourage
the wrong type of behaviour,' she said.
--ST
