Amanda Mustard

Independent Photojournalist

www.amandamustard.com

Tooth and Nail

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Nationality: American

Biography: Amanda Mustard is an independent photojournalist and filmmaker based between Bangkok, Thailand and Pennsylvania, USA. She is a contributor for Redux Pictures and is currently accepting assignments and project collaborations worldwide. Mustard is... read on

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Sriracha, Thailand � September 29, 2018 : A tiger swims in an enclosure at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : Schoolchildren walk by large statues at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Ratchaburi, Thailand � September 20, 2019 : One of the two tigers permitted for reporters to see during a press event at the DNP Wildlife Reproduction Centre in Khao Pratab Chang. In June 2016, Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) confiscated 147 tigers from the infamous Tiger Temple. Since then, 86 of the tigers have died in the government's care. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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March 30, 2016 - Sriracha, Thailand - Tourists pose for a photo with Tony, a Kenyan man who plays a character role at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Tony moved to Thailand in the 1980's as a circus performer. He loved animals, and proposed this role to the zoo as a new career for himself. He lives in Sriracha with his wife and children. Photo by Amanda Mustard for the New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 27, 2018 : A tourist gets his portrait taken with a tiger at the Million Years Stone Park and Crocodile Farm. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : Schoolchildren watch an show performance at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : A tiger jumps through a fiery hoop during a show performance at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Four Paws and DNP vets work together in a training program to provide medical care to several tigers at the DNP Khaozon Breeding Facility in Ratchaburi, Thailand.

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 27, 2018 : Employees prepared a lunch of raw poultry meat for the tigers kept by the Million Years Stone Park and Crocodile Farm. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Sriracha, Thailand � September 29, 2018 : Tourists pay 20 Thai baht ($.60) to feed a piece of meat to tigers on display at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : Tourists photograph tiger cubs nursing on a pig at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Sriracha, Thailand � September 29, 2018 : Tigers swim in an enclosure at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : Tourists have a paid portrait session feeding a tiger cub at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : A tourist shoots a bb gun at cages to drop raw meat to the tigers below. This activity costs 150 Thai baht ($4.50) for 15 shots. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Bangkok, Thailand � March 16, 2016 : Two tigers cool off in a pool during the midday heat. Known as the Tiger Temple, Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua is a Theravada Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi, Thailand established in 1994 as a forest temple and refuge for discarded wild animals. Due to illegal trafficking accusations amongst other controversies, the tigers have begun to be removed from the temple and relocated to a government-run facility.

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Ratchaburi, Thailand � September 20, 2019 : A tiger carcass is shown to reporters on a press tour of the DNP Wildlife Reproduction Centre in Khao Pratab Chang. In June 2016, Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) confiscated 147 tigers from the infamous Tiger Temple. Since then, 86 of the tigers have died in the government's care. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

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Pattaya, Thailand � September 28, 2018 : A tiger rests in between portrait sessions at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo. Credit: Amanda Mustard for New York Times

Public Story

Tooth and Nail

Credits: amanda mustard

Updated: 03/14/20

Location: Thailand

Archived as: Animals, Documentary, Photography, Photojournalism

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